Apparent Murder/Suicide In West Hills – Donna and Craig Edwards

This older couple was found by coworkers of the wife deceased in their home on Monday.  It happened in West Hills, but still I think relevant to the blog.  Daily News writes:

WEST HILLS – A 66-year-old woman and her 62-year-old husband were discovered dead in their home in a murder suicide, police said Tuesday.Donna Edwards was found shot to death at 10 a.m. Monday in the master bedroom of their home in the 7900 block of McLaren Avenue by colleagues who became concerned when she failed to show up for work, said Los Angeles Police Department officials.

Craig Edwards was discovered dead on the kitchen floor. His cause for death is being determined by the Los Angeles County Coroner. Police said there were no obvious signs for his death.

Authorities are still determining a motive for the slaying and have recovered several weapons from the home.

Police ask anyone with information on the deaths to call LAPD’s Topanga division homicide detectives Foster Rains and Ammon Williams at 756-4820. After hour calls can be directed to 1-877-527-3247.

A comment left by Larry of North Hills makes some good points about sad incidents like this:

Well, either way, I wouldn’t rush to judgement on this. Life, as you know, is crazy and very unfair. Just look around you. We have a 13% unemployment rate, we have the highest tax rates in the country, the union and government workers getting bloated salaries and pensions for doing basically nothing to improve our own infrastracture and they could retire early,… I could go on and on. We were never asked to suffer this way, never.

Maybe the couple’s house was about to be foreclosed on or that their savings were blown away by the greedy Wall Street executives or both, who knows.

Now I don’t wanna hear statements like “Suicide, a permanent solution to a temporary problem” or “Suicide has no salvation in God’s Kingdom” or what have you. I don’t wanna hear that crap. I want someone to step forward from “Profiles of Courage” and rescue us.

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