Cops: South Dade Dad, Pablo Josue Amador, 54, Fatally Shoots Wife, Maria Amador, Two Daughters and Himself, Son Escapes

Here we go again. Another man killing his entire family, except his oldest son who managed to get away. Pablo Josue Amador, who has been described as a gifted musician and once sang tenor with the Greater Miami Opera chorus, shot and killed his wife and two daughters this morning as his 16-year-old son escaped their South Miami-Dade home.

Amador then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide that stunned a neighborhood filled with many of his current and former students. Police received a 911 call just before 6 a.m. of shots fired at the home in the 16000 block of Southwest 98th Court. When officers arrived, they found four bodies inside, according to Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a police spokesman. ''The preliminary investigation revealed the male, the father of the family, shot his two daughters, killed his wife and then himself," Zabaleta said.

Zabaleta said Amador's daughters were 13 and 14. Police did not say where their bodies were found. The couple's teenage son was able to escape unharmed from the house and called police from a cordless phone as he ran away, Zabaleta said. Investigators were still speaking with him and were trying to reach other family members of the deceased. A victim witness counselor with the department's homicide bureau was also helping the teenager.

Pablo Amador, 54, gave piano lessons to students of all ages at the home, according to a post on http://www.privatelessons.com/. Amador writes that he was a musical director, arranger and vocalist for Los Galileos, a six-member ensemble that had performed in dozens of churches around South Florida since 2001. He also says he sang tenor with the Greater Miami Opera chorus, now the Florida Grand Opera, and sang at Kendall United Methodist Church. Amador's wife, Maria J. Amador, 47, worked as director of education for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis center at the University of Miami. Source: The Miami Herald.

I hate to say it, but there will be more of these murder-suicides as the economic nightmare continues. I don't know what was the straw that broken the camel's back in this case and pushed Mr. Amador to do something so drastic and heinous, but one has to wonder why this had to happen. His motivations were selfish and to leave his teenage son to live through such trauma is unconscionable and unfair. He's a punk for taking the easy way out. Sorry, no sympathies here.