Granada Hills

Man kills wife, adult children in apparent murder-suicide in Granada Hills, LAPD says

A man in his late 80s, believed to be the shooter, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot sound.

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Four people were found dead in a Granada Hills home in what’s being investigated as a possible murder-suicide. Christian Cazares reports for the NBC4 News.

Two men and two women were found shot to death in a Granada Hills home Saturday night in what the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating as a murder-suicide.

The shooting was reported at 6:50 p.m. Saturday in the 11600 block of Lerdo Avenue, north of the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway next to Zelzah Park, LAPD Officer Rosario Cervantes said.

Arriving officers knocked on the door but no one answered, so they forced entry and were met by a witness who directed them to the deceased people, Cervantes said.

A woman believed about 80 years old and a man and woman in their late 40s were found shot to death. Another man, in his late 80s who is believed to be the shooter, was found dead in a different area of the house from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Cervantes said. LAPD said the deceased were a family, including a mother, a father and their two adult children.

LAPD Capt. Kelly Muniz said one person was able to survive the violence by barricading themselves in a room. It is unclear what relationship that survivor had with the deceased.

Video from the scene showed a large police presence in the neighborhood as the shooting was investigated.

On Monday, the county medical examiner identified the dead as Rodrigo Rodriguez De Leon, 53, Rodrigo Canuela De Leon, 79, Arabella Rodriguez De Leon, 80, and Merceditas Rodriguez De Leon, 49, all of Los Angeles.

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