A Pinon Hills man suspected of killing his 9-month old son before committing suicide apparently posted details of the plans on his Facebook page in an emotional, rambling letter beginning with, \u201cSo This Is Goodbye.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI led everyone on my side of the family to believe I wouldn\u2019t have done this because I did not want them to know.\uf02e.\uf02e.\uf02e. ,\u201d reads the post attributed to Stephen Garcia, 25. \u201cI did this out of love for our son, to protect him and myself. I am sorry.\uf02e.\uf02e.\uf02e. Do not dwell on what I did, it\u2019s something you could not fix.\u201d <\/p>\n
San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department investigators found Garcia and his son, Wyatt, at 1:30 a.m. Sunday inside his car on a dirt road in Twin Peaks. Both had sustained \u201ctraumatic injuries\u201d and were pronounced dead at the scene.
\nEarlier that day, deputies had received a report that Garcia had taken his son during a court-ordered visitation and threatened to kill the boy and commit suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Garcia was apparently distraught over having to share custody of the boy with his former girlfriend, Katie Tagle.
\nHe had set up an elaborate website with photos, text messages, love letters and angry denunciations of Tagle\u2019s family and friends, people he thought were breaking up his family. <\/p>\n
The site included pictures of himself, his son and Tagle in happier times.
\n\u201cYou are THE missing piece in my life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI hope we can be a family together forever and I will be there for you every day.\u201d
\nBut his efforts to get back together failed. <\/p>\n
The suicide note was discovered on Garcia\u2019s Facebook page Sunday, after deputies found the bodies.
\n\u201cDo not blame her.\uf02e.\uf02e.\uf02e. \u201d it says of Tagle. \u201cOur deaths are a lot for her. It will have to suffice as her punishment.\u201d <\/p>\n
–David Kelly in Riverside County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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