Father Stabs Wife and Shoots His Two Children, Then Self
I cannot believe that things like this seem to keep happening more and more frequently lately. Parents are fighting over something - usually petty - and then someone ends up shooting the kids. I don't understand. The kids were probably yelling at them to stop fighting and paid the ultimate price. (Full Story)
Autopsy reports said the young brother and sister were shot three times each before their father, Clarence Saunders, 58, fired one bullet into his head during a brief standoff with police at their northwestern Ohio home.Fulton County Coroner Harry Murtiff said 10-year-old Lauren was shot in the chest, abdomen and back, and 5-year-old Jacob was shot in the heart, left cheek and right flank.
The children's mother, Patricia Saunders, who told authorities she was stabbed by her husband before the standoff, was recovering at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, her father said.