Apparent Miramar Ranch North Murder-Suicide Investigated (CA)

Suspected murder-suicide May 6, 2009

Original: http://www.10news.com/news/19383100/detail.html

SAN DIEGO -- A couple found dead in their Miramar Ranch North home, possibly the victims of a murder-suicide, were identified Wednesday.

Richard Young Choe, 67, and his wife, Grace, 62, were found by friends who went to their home in the 11200 block of Golden Birch Way about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, because the two had not shown up at a church event, San Diego police Lt. Kevin Rooney said.

Along with a neighbor, the friends looked in the windows and saw the woman's body, Rooney said. Firefighters forced their way in and found the two bodies, he said.

Both the man and the woman had traumatic injuries," Rooney said.

A handgun was found near the man's body, Rooney said. The deaths were being investigated as a possible murder-suicide.

Woman Critical After Apparent Murder Suicide Attempt (CA)

Man attempts to kill woman, then kills himself May 6, 2009

UPDATE: http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12315892?nclick_check=1

A 57-year-old woman involved in a bitter divorce was in "good condition" today as she recovered from a bullet wound inflicted in a West Hollywood parking structure by her husband, who then killed himself, authorities said.

"She's in good condition, and may be released sometime today or tomorrow," Sgt. John Corina of the sheriff's homicide bureau said this morning.

The woman's name was not immediately released. Her husband was Eric Steven Lesin, 59, of North Hollywood, a coroner's investigator said.

Lesin waited for his wife in an underground parking structure in the 9000 block of Phyllis Avenue Wednesday morning, said sheriff's Lt. David Coleman. At some point during their encounter, Lesin shot the woman in the neck, then turned the gun on himself, he said.

Paramedics were sent to the location about 9 a.m. Wednesday. Lesin was declared dead at the scene while his wife was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in critical condition.

Coleman said the pair were going through a bitter divorce, and Corina added: "He felt that she was to blame for his troubles."

Corina said Lesin and his wife had no children together.

Original: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-murder-suicide,0,4524463.story

KTLA News Staff reporter

May 6, 2009

WEST HOLLYWOOD - A woman has been hospitalized in critical condition in an apparent murder suicide attempt, authorities said.

The shooting was reported shortly after 9 a.m. near the intersection of Doheny Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard, said Sgt. Diane Hecht of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.

The unidentified woman is said to be roughly 50-years-old and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in critical condition, county fire Inspector Steve Zermeno said.

The man, who was in his late 50s, died at the scene.

Investigators believe he shot the woman, said to be his wife, before turning the gun on himself.

Contractor kills girlfriend, son, self (CA)

Man kills girlfriend and child, then himself May 6, 2009

Original: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-P25XnbZjFKbq82RcILZq8MLjaAD980S7A81

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — An electrical contractor who was having financial problems shot to death his live-in girlfriend and 3 1/2-year-old son before killing himself, police said Wednesday.

Officers called to an apartment Tuesday afternoon found the bodies of Craig Rubin, 44, and Mary Striley, 42, on beds in separate bedrooms while the body of their son, Jake, was in a high chair in the kitchen, Sgt. Dan Adams said.

Each had been shot once in the head.

Police were called by the apartment manager, who had not seen the family in several days. The manager said the couple had not moved their cars or answered their phone for days, police said.

Adams said Rubin left a suicide note in which he took responsibility for killing his family.

The motive for the killings was under investigation, but Rubin had financial problems and both his girlfriend and son had health problems, Adams said. He had no details about those problems.

A work van labeled Rubin Electric was parked outside the apartment.

Rubin and Striley had lived together for four or five years, Adams said.

Orange is in central Orange County about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles man, Ervin Lupoe kills wife Ana Lupoe, 5 children, self at home, both had lost jobs (CA)

Husband kills wife and five kids, then himself Jan. 26, 2009

Original: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-ervin-lupoe-090127-ht,0,1546651.story

Tribune wire reports

10:11 PM CST, January 27, 2009

Ervin Lupoe of Los Angeles, fatally shot his wife, Ana Lupoe, five young children and himself, claiming in a note he faxed to a TV station Tuesday that the couple had just been fired from their hospital jobs and together planned the killings as an escape for the whole family.

"Why leave our children in someone else's hands," Ervin Lupoe wrote in his letter to KABC-TV. The station posted the letter on its Web site later with some parts redacted.

The station called police after receiving the fax, and a police dispatch center also received a call from a man who stated, "I just returned home and my whole family's been shot."

Officers rushed to the home in Wilmington, a small community between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, about 8:30 a.m. and found the bodies.

All were shot in the head, some multiple times, Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said. The killings may have occurred between Monday evening and early Tuesday, based on neighbors' accounts of firecracker sounds, he said. MORE