A police sergeant, his wife and their two sons – ages 10 and 12 – were found dead in a suburban home in New York in what police said was a triple murder-suicide.
Watson Morgan, 49, a sergeant with the Bronxville police department, fatally shot his wife, Ornela Morgan, 43, and their sons before dying by suicide, police said. They were discovered just past midnight Saturday at the family’s home in Clarkstown – 18 miles north of Manhattan – after Morgan failed to show up for work at the police department in nearby Bronxville.
“At this phase in the investigation, it is believed that Watson killed his wife and two children, prior to killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Clarkstown police department said in a statement.
All four members of the family had gunshot wounds, police said, and all were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators recovered a handgun at the home.
Though police described Morgan’s killing of his wife and their children as a murder-suicide, such crimes since the 1980s have been known as Family Annihilations.
Communities often view such crimes as isolated tragedies, especially in the US. But an Indianapolis Star investigation found there had been an average of one Family Annihilation in the US every five days since 2020.
I thought family annihilation was an outsider killing an entire family. I think I’ve only ever heard murder suicide be used for parents killing children/spouses. It seems like the news is trying to make this even more inflammatory than it already is.
Can I just say, it shows how utterly fucked your society is that you have fuckin words for this shit, jesus fuck 😅
Yous will sit and argue about whether or not something was a mass shooting, but not discuss the actual reason behind it
what’s “funny” (not funny) to me is they had to invent a category of shootings- mass shootings- because there were too many shootings to distinguish.
I wonder how long before we’re talking about “only 1 mass^mass shooting” per day
It’s shameful and embarrassing.
Family annihilators are generally men killing off their family. I think outsiders killing families are just plain old murderers.