Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators say a Palmdale man killed his sister, then drove to his ex-wife’s home and fatally shot her in front of their young child before fleeing and taking his own life Monday inside a truck on a Lancaster highway Monday.
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<\/br>The deadly rampage began around 7 a.m. and left detectives with three crime scenes in the Antelope Valley.
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<\/br>The 31-year-old gunman called his father about 7 a.m. Monday to inform him that he had killed his sister and intended to take his own life as well. The father, whom authorities declined to name, immediately dashed to a home in 38700 block of 31st Street East in Palmdale, where he found his 33-year-old daughter dead, investigators said.
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<\/br>About the same time, sheriff’s deputies responded to 911 calls of shots fired in 45300 block of Beech Avenue in Lancaster. There, sheriff’s deputies discovered the gunman’s 34-year-old ex-wife with multiple gunshot wounds. She died of her wounds at the scene.
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<\/br>According to Sheriff’s Lt. Pat Nelson, detectives subsequently learned that the man had shot his ex-wife in front of their daughter.
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<\/br>Deputies later found the gunman’s body inside his sister’s vehicle on Avenue E and Sierra Highway, Lancaster. He had apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, detectives said.
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<\/br>Investigators are withholding the identities of the dead, pending notification of their extended families.
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<\/br>— Richard Winton
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