TWO MURDER-SUICIDES GIRL CALLS 911, SAYS DAD SHOT HER MOM.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick and Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writers NEENACH - An 8-year-old dialed 911 early Friday to report that her father had fatally shot her mother before turning the gun on himself in the family's home in rural Neenach - the third murder-suicide in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley in just five days. The call came less than a day after a man fatally shot his ex-girlfriend as she watched her young son play baseball at a crowded Lancaster park. The man also killed himself. And on Monday, a Palmdale father - a man who neighbors described as a devout church-goer who loved his children - shot his 8- and 15-year-old daughters, then himself, because his wife wanted to separate, authorities said. ``This is unreal,'' said the Rev. Bill Pricer, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. chaplain. ``The saddest part is that the children are the real victims.'' Media coverage of crimes - particularly bizarre ones - usually prompts copycats, said sociologist Katherine van Wormer Katherine van Wormer, a professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa and a writer on addiction treatment, claimed in an Irish Times article on May 6 2003 that U.S. president George W. Bush seems to display "all the classic patterns of addictive thinking". Dr. , a professor at the University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, was founded in 1876, as the Iowa State Normal School. It has colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and a graduate school. . Though apparently no research has gone specifically into murder-suicide clusters, she said, there is no doubt they occur. ``It plants the suggestion,'' said van Wormer Wormer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 13 km northwest of Amsterdam. In 2006, the town of Wormer had 12566 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town is 16.88 km² (of which water: 4.19 km²). . Pricer agreed: `If someone has the propensity, they hesitate less when they hear of another case. If they're mentally off-balance already, this might tip the balance.'' It was about 11 a.m. Friday when the 8-year-old girl summoned police to her home on a dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n in Neenach where her parents lay dead inside. The father, identified by neighbors as Alfonzo Torivio, had shot the mother, Rebecca. The couple, recently separated, had four children. A day earlier, parents watching youngsters play baseball in a Lancaster were stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. to watch Samuel Maston, 37, walk up and shoot ex- girlfriend Lisa Briggs, 32. ``Some (children) were in shock, some were screaming and some were hugging their kids and crying,'' Mike Ennis, the Lancaster Youth PONY Baseball League's vice president, said of the scene. Briggs' son, who is 7 or 8, had been in the dugout when his mother was shot. And before dawn Monday, Robert Bennett Robert Bennett or Bob Bennett is the name of:
Staff writers Karen Maeshiro and Greg Botonis contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Lucy, a neighbor who did not want to give her last name, reacts to the news of a murder-suicide Friday in a home in Neenach. (2 -- color) Officials converge upon the rural Neenach home where a man shot his wife, then turned the gun on himself. It was the third murder-suicide this week in the Antelope Valley. David Crane/Staff Photographer 
Sam Maston harassed and stocked me 22 years ago and nobody did a thing. Numerous calls to the police department and nothing was done to protect me. Major cover up to protect a former police officers son. I told his father 22 years ago that if nothing was done he was going to kill me or someone else. Well he did. Today I watched as Sam's family participated in a girls softball team with the name Sam Maston printed on the back of the girls shirts. Boy it would of been nice to see Lisa Briggs sitting their watching her son play ball. But she's dead. It took everything out of me not to walk up to them and say I told you so. <br><br>Staci Megee Pelayo
Lisa Briggs is the daughter of Cheryl and Ray Croft. Mom of Joshua Briggs. She was taken way to early in her life. <br>Staci I am so thankful you got out of the relationship from Sam Maston. And yes it could have been you. I agree that if instead of covering up what Sam had done and correct him by giving him consequences for his actions not only would my dear friend Lisa Briggs be alive but Sam would still be alive as well. Mr and Mrs Croft would still have their daughter and Lisa's son Joshua would still have his mom to get kisses from just before his baseball games in which Lisa would do and wish him good luck on the game.
jalilj0 (Member): 10/27/2009 2:32 AM
That sickens me to know that a girls softball team is wearing that name on the back of their shirts. I wonder if they know that he murdered Lisa. I wonder if they know the untold damage that has done to Joshua and the rest of our family. It's been five years since this disaster and there is not a day our family doesn't think about Lisa. We try to think about the great things she was, mother, sister daughter, and friend. All those things make us smile and sometimes laugh at the silly things she used to do, but it is difficult to keep the smiles or laughter because of the dark cloud that soon enters our thoughts of how she was killed by a selfish, sick person. The worst thing about this is Joshua's loss, he has lost a wonderful mother that didn't get the chance to finish being a mom. No one in the world can replace that, and who knows how this will manifest in Joshua. I pray that he learns how to be a great man and husband and how there is NO TOLERANCE for people who commit such horrible things. Staci I'm glad it wasn't you and am sorry for it falling on deaf ears. I'm hoping that the name on the shirts was simply just a poor decision in the way they were representing Mr. Maston's (also Sam) insurance office. It truly is in poor taste for even that, but if it is someway to memorialize Sam, then that is just cruel and the family deserves to be confronted about it. My wife and I are committed in helping victims of domestic violence and encourage others to report it and be a good friend to those that need help, even when they don't realize it. |
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