And so, this is Christmas

[Five_Inch_Heels]

TUCSON, AZ - Two young girls were killed Wednesday night by their father, 37-year-old Levi J. Parker, according to Sheriff Chris Nanos. Parker then shot himself in the head. He was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m. Thursday.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department received a 911 call just before 7:00 p.m. Wednesday night from a mother who said the father of her two young children threatened their lives.

"He made statements to her that basically led her to believe this was her last chance to talk to the kids alive," Sheriff Nanos said.

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-ce...heriff-dad-kills-own-daughters-in-tucson-home

A family member paying a visit to a home on the 300 block of Willis Avenue Thursday discovered what the Ashland Police Department Captain Jim Gregoire says is an apparent double murder and suicide.

Dead is an adult male and two adult females. The names of the victims are being withheld pending the notification of family members.

According to Gregoire, the apparent homicides were reported shortly after noon on Thursday.

“Around noon, we got a call that there was someone who had been shot,” Gregoire said. “Officers arriving at the scene did a tactical response, came in and found that there was no one in the house that was alive.

http://www.apg-wi.com/ashland_daily...cle_509e86f4-aa90-11e5-b512-bfae1a6ef68b.html

A shooting at a North Carolina mall sent shoppers fleeing into stores, some locking themselves inside, on Christmas Eve, but police say the incident was sparked by a long-running feud and was not a random act of violence.

The incident ended when an off-duty officer fatally shot a man who pointed a gun in his direction at Northlake Mall in Charlotte on Thursday afternoon, police said. Officials said no one else was shot, and there were no other reports of injuries.

People who knew each other and had past disputes began fighting at the mall, though there was no indication it was gang-related, Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-fight-sparks-north-carolina-mall-shooting-killed-35949265





(Apologies to John Lennon)

 

[I_jerk_off_alot]

I saw a couple of auto accidents and breakdowns yesterday too.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

God likes to remind us how blessed we are.

 

[oggbashan]

Some years ago we used to live next to temporary accommodation owned by our local Council.

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day were always the worst for domestic arguments, threatened suicides and family violence. It seemed to be that their expectations of Christmas were greater than what was possible financially or emotionally.

Earlier today an ambulance, followed by the air ambulance helicopter, were called to a local home for those with mental health problems. We don't know what happened, but staffing such places over Christmas is always difficult and the residents can be distressed by any changes to their daily routines, even the Christmas festivities.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And if anybody is wondering, the thread title was selected based on a very old TV commercial that ran in the States for many years during the holidays. It may be on YT somewhere. Featured the Lennon song as background for a plea for funds for homeless and impoverished kids worldwide that have no idea what the holiday is.

Overall, it's essentially a happy song, but those images make it seem like a very tragic song.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

But man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

 

[Super-Surprise]

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[Five_Inch_Heels]

An Edgewater man shot and killed his wife and 8-year-old daughter before taking his own life, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said during a press conference just before midnight Friday. Police discovered their bodies on Christmas in their luxury apartment building after they failed to turn up at a family holiday celebration, he said.

The prosecutor said the bodies of Michael Stasko, 53, his wife, Melisa, 49, and daughter, Mellie, 8, were found shortly after 7 p.m. on Friday in the Windsor at Mariners apartment building, when a relative in Missouri called the Edgewater police worried that they hadn’t yet arrived and weren’t answering their cellphones.

Stasko was found with a gunshot wound under his chin, and his wife and daughter had been shot in the backs of their heads, Molinelli said. The shootings could have occurred while the two were sleeping, as they were dressed in pajamas, and as long ago as Tuesday, on Mellie’s eighth birthday, Molinelli said. Along with the bodies, police found a .45-caliber handgun with hollow-point bullets.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/3-found-dead-in-edgewater-bergen-county-prosecutor-says-1.1480493

 

[RoryN]

Out in California, a guy doused his girlfriend with gasoline, set her on fire and killed her Christmas day (yesterday). He's still at large.

Not as bad as the ex-husband who took a blowtorch to his estranged wife's holiday party a few years back, but still bad.

 

[Noor]

I never understand why they kill the children.

 

[RoryN]

I never understand why they kill the children.

Sometimes they do it to hurt the spouse.

Sometimes they do it because they actually believe the kids will be better off dead than without their parent / parents (if they commit suicide / murder).

And sometimes they blame the kids for their problems and want them to suffer and die.

 

[Minalick]

Some times ignorance really is bliss.