• Murder-suicide in Linden, NJ, claimed four lives on Sunday.
• An electrician hailing from New Jersey took the life of his beautician wife and their two kids before shooting himself.
• The authorities have not yet disclosed the names and ages of the slain people.

Murder-suicide in Linden, NJ, claimed four lives on Sunday, February 19th, 2023. An electrician hailing from New Jersey took the life of his beautician wife and their two kids before shooting himself. 

The authorities have not yet disclosed the names and ages of the slain people. 

One of the victims, the couple’s son, initially survived the shooting that killed his mom and sister, according to ABC7.  But the boy died hours later at University Hospital in Newark, Linden police said in a statement.

The authorities have not determined the reason behind Linden’s apparent slay-suicide.

The neighbors of the deceased family are shocked and horrified. They find it extremely hard to believe that something so dreadful could happen in their society.

“They were a normal family. That’s why it’s impossible to believe.” Angel Montanez, 56, told a source.

He further added that they used to go camping every long weekend with a trailer they hooked up to their car. The late family recently renovated their kitchen and invited me to show it.

Montanez said he’d regularly chat about work with the father because they’re both electricians. The families would often take one another’s kids to school. 

This incident has led people to believe that what goes behind closed doors is as hidden as a buried star. 

The family did everything that a typical family does. They walked their dog and went swimming just as often as the Montanez family.

Many people have questioned the father’s decision to kill his family before shooting himself. Some people have been empathizing with the father, while others consider his decision to be a display of poor judgment.

Another neighbor, 76-year-old Digna Alvarez, said she never heard any screaming noises coming from their home and described the father as kind and always willing to lend a hand. 

Alvarez told ABC that she was home with her sister-in-law when her relative heard a child screaming.

“She heard somebody screaming, but she ignored it, thinking that someone must be playing with the dog, and then no more,” she said.

An air of terror has prevailed in the neighborhood since this tragic incident occurred, but the authorities have made it clear that there is no threat to anyone residing there. 

Neighbors said the father worked as an electrician, while his wife was a beautician who ran a salon out of their home.

Law enforcement agencies and the neighbors of the slain family are still trying to make sense of it all.