Everyone is feeling the economic crisis at this point. Many have been laid off and few have been fired. For one Los Angeles man, the thought of not being able to provide for his family proved to be too much.
Ervin Lupoe shot and killed his five children and his wife before shooting himself. Erivin faxed a letter to KABC-TV before he shot himself. Saying that he would not leave his children behind to be raised by strangers.

Why leave the children to a stranger?

KABC-TV immediately called the police once they received the fax. The officers were inside the home, located between Los Angeles and Long Beach, just minutes after the murder/suicide. The fax sent into KABC-TV accused Ana Lupoe, Ervin’s wife, of the killings.

In the letter he faxed to a TV station, Ervin Lupoe claimed he and his wife both had been fired and that she suggested they kill themselves and their children, too. Police described the fax but did not release the details.

However the police believe Ervin to be the sole suspect because the gun was found next to his body.

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center West Los Angeles released a statement confirming both Lupoe and his wife worked there; both were medical technicians.
He was going through some critical situations at the job, that’s what he described in that two-page letter, ongoing problems at the job, and that’s what prompted him to take his own life and his family’s.

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