Ervin Lupoe Murders Wife, Ana Lupoe, Five Young Children, Says in Note to TV Station, They Were Fired from Kaiser Permanente Facility

Photo: Ervin Antonio Lupoe and Family (found on Fox News)

I am painfully aware of the economic crisis we are going through in this country, but I am also disappointed that someone could be so selfish and cruel as to kill his entire family. Ervin Antonio Lupoe did just that. He fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself today. He had earlier faxed a note to a television station in which he claimed that he and his wife had just been fired from their hospital jobs and had planned the killings as a final escape for the whole family. Huh? "Why leave the children to a stranger?" Ervin Lupoe wrote, according to KABC-TV.

The station called police after receiving the fax, and a police dispatch center also received a call from a man who stated, "'I just returned home and my whole family's been shot." The fax asserted that Ana Lupoe planning the killings of the whole family, but police Lt. John Romero said Lupoe was the suspect. A revolver was reportedly found next to his body.

According to media reports, Ana Lupoe's body was found in a downstairs bedroom with the bodies of the couple's twin 2-year-old boys. The bodies of an 8-year-old girl, twin 5-year-old girls were found alongside Lupoe's in an upstairs bedroom.

Here is the really crazy statistic. This tragedy was the fifth mass death of a Southern California family by murder or suicide in a year. Come on people. Surely you can face tough economic times with some dignity, resolve and determination instead of resorting to violence. That is simply not the solution to the problem. There are alternatives to committing such a horrific crime.

Lupoe removed three of the children from school about a week and a half ago, saying the family was moving to Kansas, the school principal told KCAL-TV. Crescent Heights Elementary School Principal Cherise Pounders-Caver said nothing seemed to be troubling Lupoe at that time; she did not ask why the family was moving.

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center West Los Angeles released a statement confirming both Lupoe and his wife worked there; both were medical technicians. "We are deeply saddened to hear of the deaths of the Lupoe family," it said in a statement. Source: The Huffington Post

Of course, Ervin Lupoe was a coward. He claimed his wife suggested that they kill themselves and their children, too. This man was supposed to protect his family, not destroy them. This is such a senseless and horrific crime. These children did not deserve the fate that befell them.

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