Father Kills 7-Year-Old Daughter and Himself In Murder Suicide Outside California Mall
Police are investigating what made a 36-year-old man fatally shoot his seven-year-old daughter and then himself in a shopping mall parking lot in California.
The apparent murder-suicide took place while Carlos Garcia and his daughter Yaxtel were sitting inside the family’s black Kia Soul Sunday afternoon outside the busy Capitola Mall in Capitola, in Santa Cruz County.
“Our investigation will hopefully be able to answer that as regards to why,” Capitola Police Chief Terry McManus tells People. “We don’t know right now.”
McManus said police have ruled out kidnapping as a motive. “There is nothing to indicate it was a kidnapping,...
The apparent murder-suicide took place while Carlos Garcia and his daughter Yaxtel were sitting inside the family’s black Kia Soul Sunday afternoon outside the busy Capitola Mall in Capitola, in Santa Cruz County.
“Our investigation will hopefully be able to answer that as regards to why,” Capitola Police Chief Terry McManus tells People. “We don’t know right now.”
McManus said police have ruled out kidnapping as a motive. “There is nothing to indicate it was a kidnapping,...
- 3/21/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
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