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A man distraught over his job situation killed his wife and five children before committing suicide at their home on Tuesday, said police in US state of California. The victims include two sets of twins.
Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner said the man killed his wife, an eight-year-old girl, twin five-year-old daughters and twin 2-year-old sons, following which, he killed himself.
A revolver was found at the home in Wilmington, California.
Garner says the man had sent a typewritten letter to a Burbank television station spelling out what he planned to do. The station notified police.
According to the television channel, the man claimed that he and his wife had been fired from jobs as medical technicians and she suggested they kill themselves and their children, too.
"Why leave the children to a stranger?" the man wrote, according to the television channel.
The channel reported that the man claimed in the fax that an administrator rebuffed them when they showed up to work, told them to file a union grievance and said, "You should have blown your brains out."
The man wrote that they filed a grievance but nothing was done and two days later they were fired.
A Los Angeles hospital has confirmed that two of its former employees died in a family murder-suicide that the father blamed on job problems.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre, west Los Angeles, says in a statement that Ervin Antonio Lupoe and his wife, Ana, were former employees and the hospital is cooperating in the police investigation.
Wilmington, about 18 miles (29 km) south of downtown, is a 10-square-mile (2600-hectare) community adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles.
Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner said the man killed his wife, an eight-year-old girl, twin five-year-old daughters and twin 2-year-old sons, following which, he killed himself.
A revolver was found at the home in Wilmington, California.
Garner says the man had sent a typewritten letter to a Burbank television station spelling out what he planned to do. The station notified police.
According to the television channel, the man claimed that he and his wife had been fired from jobs as medical technicians and she suggested they kill themselves and their children, too.
"Why leave the children to a stranger?" the man wrote, according to the television channel.
The channel reported that the man claimed in the fax that an administrator rebuffed them when they showed up to work, told them to file a union grievance and said, "You should have blown your brains out."
The man wrote that they filed a grievance but nothing was done and two days later they were fired.
A Los Angeles hospital has confirmed that two of its former employees died in a family murder-suicide that the father blamed on job problems.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre, west Los Angeles, says in a statement that Ervin Antonio Lupoe and his wife, Ana, were former employees and the hospital is cooperating in the police investigation.
Wilmington, about 18 miles (29 km) south of downtown, is a 10-square-mile (2600-hectare) community adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles.
