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Police: Jobless father kills family, self
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man distraught
because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his
wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale
San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.
Authorities said
the man had an MBA in finance but appeared to have been unemployed for
several months and had worked for major accounting firms, such as Price
Waterhouse, police said.
The two-story rented home is in a gated community in Porter Ranch, about 20 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The
shootings were discovered after 8:20 a.m. Monday, after a neighbor
called police officers to report that the wife had failed to pick her
up to take her to her job at a pharmacy, Deputy Chief of Police Michel
Moore said.
Ed Winter, assistant chief from the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, identified the suspect as Karthik Rajaram, 45.
He
said the victims included Rajaram's mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham,
69, and his 19-year-old son Krishna Rajaram, a Fulbright Scholar and
honor student at UCLA.
Also
dead were Rajaram's wife, 39, and their two other sons, 12 and 7. Some
of the victims had been shot more than once and their identities were
not immediately confirmed, he said.
"Due to the nature of their injuries, it's been a little difficult," Winter said. There were no signs of struggle, he said.
Police first found the mother-in-law shot in her bed in a downstairs bedroom, Moore said.
Upstairs,
the couple's eldest old son was shot in the master bedroom; the wife in
another bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head; the two younger sons
in the bedroom they shared, both shot in the head. The 12-year-old was
on the floor and the 7-year-old in bed, Moore said.
The suspect was also in that bedroom, a gun still in his hand.
The killings are thought to have occurred after 6 p.m. Saturday, when the man was last reported seen, Moore said.
Inside
the house, police also found three letters, one to law enforcement
acknowledging responsibility for the killings, a second to friends and
relatives and a third that appears to be the suspect's will, Moore said.
"He
attests to some financial difficulties, and he takes responsibility for
the taking of the lives of his family members and himself as a result
of those financial difficulties," Moore said.
Neighbors, family
and friends told police that the suspect, who had not worked for
several months, had said in recent days he was having had extreme
financial difficulties, Moore said.
One of the letters, intended
for friends and marked "personal and confidential," detailed his
financial transactions that resulted in "an unfortunate, downward
spiral," Moore said.
"His narrative is one of talking about this
tragedy befalling him and his contemplation of an available exit or
solution," Moore said. "One is taking his own life and the other is
taking the lives of his family and himself. ... He talked himself into
the second strategy, believing that was in effect the honorable thing
to do."
Moore said the several-page narrative appeared to have
been written over a period of time. "This was something that was not a
spur-of-the-moment type of event," he said.
Moore said it was
clear to police that the family members were close and "had an
affection for each other." He said the parents had given up their
master bedroom to their eldest -- who was spending the weekend home
from college -- "out of respect."
"This is a perfect American
family behind me that has absolutely been destroyed, apparently because
of a man who just got stuck in a rabbit hole, if you will, of absolute
despair, somehow working his way into believing this to be an
acceptable exit."
No neighbors reported having heard gunshots, and there was no sign of forced entry at the house, Moore said.
Rajaram was involved in a financial holding company as part owner "at least," Moore said.
There
is no evidence he had had any history of mental difficulties, nor was
there an indication he had sought counseling, Moore said.
Neighbor
Trish Harrison, who lives three houses from the crime scene, said the
family had lived in the community for about a year, but kept to
themselves and had little interaction with neighbors. The parents were
from India, she said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District was making arrangements for crisis counselors to visit the schools attended by the two younger sons.
source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/06/california.murder.suicide
