Police: 3 Dead In Pataskala Double-Murder-Suicide
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Police find the bodies of a father, mother and 9-year-son dead in their Pataskala home.
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Police find the bodies of a father, mother and 9-year-son dead in their Pataskala home.
PATASKALA, Ohio—Authorities remain on the scene of a double-murder-suicide with three victims, including a 9-year-old boy.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
The victims include a 45-year-old, a 46-year-old and a 9-year-old child. Police have not identified the victims.
Pataskala police did a well-check run and found three bodies at 8:30 a.m. at a home on the 1300 block of Havens Corner Road.
Police said a man left letters and e-mails for family, friends and co-workers. The correspondence indicated something violent may happen in the home. Calls from recipients lead to the well-being check. Police were not disclosing the content of the letters.
The crime apparently happened between 3 and 7 a.m. Thursday, according to authorities.
Police said the deceased owned a business in the area.
There wasn’t a history of domestic calls to the home, but there was a barn fire at the residence about six months ago.
The boy attended Licking Heights Local School District. NBC 4 first reported he attended Licking Valley Elementary School.
Apparently, the family includes older children who don’t live at the Havens Corner home.
Neighbors said the family appeared to be a loving family.
No more immediate information was available.
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I agree that no one should have died that day.
Instead of making offhand judgements, how about learning what to do for the family members that are now Survivors of Suicide. They are the ones that have to deal with this nightmare daily.
How about learning that depending on age, suicide can rank up to the third leading cause of death. There are more suicides than homicides. Those that suicide are suffering from mental illness. They are not making a choice based on rational thinking.
Please learn more about it so we can wipe out the stigma that comes with it.
This man turned out to be nothing more than a murderer worthy of judgement.
I don’t care what anyone else says a murder suicide is a cowards way out of a situation. If you want to kill yourself, fine, but don’t take your innocent family members with you. This little boy has now lost a life that hadn’t even began to start. What a completely selfish and inhumane act!!!!
Please do not judge anyone who reacts this way or someone who has gone through this. I did this summer with my youngest stepson and his mother. There are no rational reasons to explain why. That is the hardest part of these situations. You can say what you would or wouldn’t do but no one knows what causes these irrational acts! You could literally worry yourself to death trying to figure out why. It is so easy to judge because it will never happen in my family, well you never really never know.
There is NO WAY you can begin to understand because it is an irrational act. A permanent solution to a short term problem, but only if you are thinking rationally.
Positive thoughts and prayers should be the only thing we as a community should be doing for the survivors who right now are in shock and waiting to wake up from this terrible nightmare.
My heart, love and prayers go out to all of the surviving family as you are dealing with this tragedy. I am still going through the greif process but not every day is bad.
As one who has been widowed and lost two husbands to suicide I feel the need to comment.
My first husband came a foot and a breath away from making it a murder/suicide while our son was quietly sleeping in his room. Instead I was forced to witness his suicide.
Surviving means living with that memory every single day. Combined with societies stigmas towards the surviving family members, it can make you feel condemned for life. It is a life sentence. One that I don’t wish on my worst enemy. While not every day is bad, I am forever changed.
Sometimes in my darkest hours I have thought that those who do not survive are the lucky ones. They are at peace in Gods loving arms. They are not forced to relive the horror on a daily basis and be shunned by society for what the suicider did.
Saturday Nov 21st is National Suicide Survivors day. How about helping us survivors to not only survive but thrive by removing the stigma of suicide. It can be done. Peace.
People take life too serious to be killing themselves and their families. And the things they are serious about are materials and ego which are really worthless. Life is short. Nothing you experience on earth should make you take anyone’s life or your own. Nothing here lasts forever and everyone already knows this. Enjoy your gift and experience and seek out truth. There is only one truth. If you don’t seek it, tragedy will find you and show you one way or another.
This is bad and all but why the f-ing he.l.l. does NBC4 have to have a map on here? So the death sight seers can find it easier?
I caution you not to make assumptions that this is related to custody and/or visitation.I know the family personally.He was in 6 figure debt to numerous creditors who recently began pressing legal action against him.I am in no way defending what he did. It is a horrible crime that I as a father of 2 can not even begin to imagine.It is bad enough he decides to take his own life, let alone his son.I just wanted to point out that it is not always due to marriage issues.Lets all pray for them and the family members and classmates who are directly affected by this tragedy.
Really…the courts favor men, really? The average time served in jail for a man who murders his wife is approx 7 years. The average time for a woman who kills her (potentially abusive) spouse…20. Please. In childcare cases, yes courts do favor mothers. I will give you that. But I don’t see how that statistic applies to this story and therefore is in discussion right now.
All this philosophy is wasted-the bottom line is the man was selfish and somehow snapped. If he loved his son and was not allowed visiting or something, killing him is NOT love. Nobody needs to kill another and suicide??? He should just have done himself in and leave the others alive.
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