Kids, Murder-suicide | featured news

A grandmother who was supposed to take her two grandsons from daycare to their birthday party at home instead killed the boys and herself, Connecticut state police said. All three bodies were found in a car Tuesday evening, two hours after an Amber Alert went out for the 2-year-old and 6-month-old. Police have classified the case as a double murder-suicide and said all three had apparent gunshot wounds, according to state police.

A woman who is accused of killing her two small children before shooting and wounding herself at their home in west Harris County earlier this month has died at the hospital, officials said.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

Six people were killed — including four children — after a shooting at a home in an upscale California neighborhood, police said on Monday.