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Tragedy struck inside a church as father shot dead three of his children on Monday before turning the gun on himself in a US church, police said.
- A church worker who was upstairs heard the shots around 5:07 p.m. and went outside to call dispatchers.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a fifth person also died in the shooting in Sacramento, California, though it was not clear if that person was related to what police said was a domestic incident.
The victims included three girls ages 9, 10 and 13.
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All three children who died were under the age of 15, Sergeant Rod Grassmann of Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office told reporters.
His reason according to reports is that he was estranged from his daughters’ mother, who had a restraining order against him.
“At 5:07 this afternoon, we received a call that there was a shooting inside the church,” Grassmann said.
“We have found now there’s an adult male, a father who has shot and killed his three children under the age of 15,” he added.
“And my understanding is that there is a fifth person that is also deceased. I don’t know if they are related.”
Police said they were not looking for anyone else involved in the shooting at The Church of Sacramento in the Arden Arcade area of the city.
This is as far as I can see, at this point, a domestic violence-related sort of incident,” Grassmann said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called the murders “senseless” in a Twitter posting.
“Another senseless act of gun violence in America–this time in our backyard.
In a church with kids inside,” he said.
Devastating. Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and their communities.”
Mass killings involving firearms are a distressingly common occurrence in the United States.
Lax gun laws and an insistence on the right to bear arms have repeatedly stymied attempts to clamp down on the number of weapons in circulation, despite greater controls being favoured by the majority of Americans.
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