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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:56 PM Jun 2014

Florida sheriff: Man guns down 3 daughters, wife, himself in ‘everyday USA’ mass killing

Police in Florida believe a San Carlos Park man fatally shot his three children, his wife and then turned the gun on himself over the weekend.

Lee Sheriff Mike Scott told the Naples Daily News that 36-year-old Sonny Enrique “Quique” Medina left a note before shooting 29-year-old Maria Antonia Navas, 10-year-old Allison Navas, 6-year-old Sophia Medina-Navas, and 2-year-old Mia Medina-Navas early Sunday morning. Scott declined to reveal the contents of the note due to an ongoing investigation.

Scott called the incident the single-largest mass shooting in Lee County history.

“This is everyday USA behind me,” Scott said on Sunday as he was standing front of the crime scene. “Something snapped, something went terribly wrong. And we’ll never know the answer to why.”

WBBH reported that Enrique Medina may have been drunk after a party at the family’s home until early Sunday morning. But Scott said that the party was “not germane” to the shootings, according to Naples Daily News.

Neighbor Nathan Hovey said that his girlfriend, Jenny Brunt, heard a child scream sometime after 2 am.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/09/florida-sheriff-man-guns-down-3-daughters-wife-himself-in-everyday-usa-mass-killing/

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Florida sheriff: Man guns down 3 daughters, wife, himself in ‘everyday USA’ mass killing (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP

Certainly is becoming more & more common place.... Historic NY Jun 2014 #1

exactly Liberal_in_LA Jun 2014 #5

There's a different "why" every time gratuitous Jun 2014 #2

In the minds of the killer its a "conscious decision" to take all he.. Historic NY Jun 2014 #7

Sickening...... louis-t Jun 2014 #3

The gun apologists have more and more to dismiss... villager Jun 2014 #4

Happens to 3 women every day, on average, in the US. redqueen Jun 2014 #6

God, how sad. smirkymonkey Jun 2014 #8

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

1. Certainly is becoming more & more common place....

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:59 PM

Jun 2014

seems not a day or week goes by w/o a few. Apparently the Sheriff gets it.

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

5. exactly

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 02:07 PM

Jun 2014

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. There's a different "why" every time

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 02:00 PM

Jun 2014

But the means and the result remain depressingly the same. More sacrificial victims for the High Church of Redemptive Violence, because our society esteems violence and death above everything else.