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PostPosted: 12/26/11 2:32 pm • # 1 
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By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:39 PM EST, Mon December 26, 2011

Dallas (CNN) -- Autopsies were being conducted Monday on seven family members who were fatally shot by a man dressed as Santa Claus at a Christmas gathering, police said.

"The information we have is that this is a family, some of them related by marriage but mostly by blood," Grapevine, Texas, police Sgt. Robert Eberling said Monday. "They have lived in other areas in the (Dallas) metroplex and they came yesterday for a Christmas gathering."

Authorities said the shooter "was one of the individuals inside the apartment that was also deceased," Eberling said. "We know he is a family member ... we are working to find out why exactly this took place. We contacted other family members to piece this together."

The shooter is believed to have been related to the family by marriage, he said. Officers were investigating whether divorce was an aspect of the shooting, he said.

The identities of the victims were expected to be released Tuesday, along with autopsy results, Eberling said.

Police said the group apparently had just finished opening their gifts when the shootings occurred in the living room of the apartment in Grapevine, about 25 miles northwest of Dallas.

Authorities responded to the address Sunday after receiving a 911 call from the apartment, but hearing only an open line, police said in a statement.

The seven bodies -- four female adults and three adult males -- were found when officers entered the apartment. "All victims appear to have gunshot wounds," said the statement.

The victims range in age from 15 to 58 or 59 years old, Eberling said Monday.

"The biggest thing we want to stress is we don't believe this person had barged his way in," Eberling said. "It appears they had all gathered in the living room for your garden-variety Christmas celebration."

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Well darn it-if they'd ALL been armed....Image


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Chaos333 wrote:
Well darn it-if they'd ALL been armed....Image
The killer would have walked away with seven more guns.


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PostPosted: 12/27/11 1:38 pm • # 4 
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Truly horrific ~

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PostPosted: 12/27/11 1:46 pm • # 5 

This one is horrible too.

Soldier Shot, Paralyzed At Homecoming Party

California Police Searching For Suspect

POSTED: 12:12 pm EST December 26, 2011
UPDATED: 3:12 pm EST December 26, 2011

(CNN) -- California police are searching for a man accused of shooting and paralyzing a U.S. Army member at a homecoming party in his honor.

Christopher Sullivan, 22, had just returned home to California from Kentucky where he was stationed while recovering from injuries sustained during a suicide bombing attack in December 2010 while he was in Afghanistan. The San Bernadino County Sun reported that the Army specialist narrowly survived the attack which killed five members of his unit and left Sullivan with a cracked collar bone and brain damage. Sullivan was awarded the Purple Heart after the incident.

Sullivan, 22, was shot at the party in his honor on Friday after an "argument and physical confrontation" with 19-year-old Ruben Ray Jurado, San Bernadino Police Department Sgt. Pete Higgins told CNN. He is wanted on charges of attempted murder, police said.  The fight broke out after Jurado and Sullivan's younger brother began arguing about football, his mother Suzanne Sullivan told CNN.

"[He] pulled out a gun and shot him twice," she said.


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