Shocking: Father kills his six year old daughter and 18months old son on Father's day before hanging himself

A father is believed to have murdered his young
son and daughter then hanged himself on
Father's Day during a bitter custody battle with
his estranged wife.
The bodies of Alvaro Camara and his kids were
found on the Monday after Father's Day by
policemen who arrived their home in response
to a welfare check.
Police first checked in on Father's Day evening
but the house was dark and no one answered
so they assumed he was still out with his kids.
But they arrived on Monday morning
accompanied by worried relatives and the
police climbed through a window to find
Camara hanged in a bedroom and his children
dead nearby. Police aren't saying how the
children died at the moment but they believe it
is a case of murder-suicide.
Camara was married, but he had been
separated from his wife for 6 months and they
were involved in a custody dispute. His two
children, a 6-year-old daughter and an 18-
month-old son, spent Father’s Day with him at
home in Santa Rosa, California. He was
supposed to drop them off at their mother’s
house on Sunday night by 7 p.m., but he never
did. Camara's estranged wife came to the
house for her kids on Sunday evening but when
no one answered her knock, she called the
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department. When
deputies arrived to see the place was dark, they
left thinking he was extending his Father's Day
outing with them, Neighbours said that Camara
had only lived there for a few months, but the
arguments between him and his estranged wife
were intense on several occasions.
The grieving mother of the two deceased
children released a statement on Tuesday. It
read in part:
"I sit... swaddled in my daughter's
blanket and drinking tea from a cup that
reads 'I love you mom', fighting back the
tears and struggling to make sense of
this horrific situation. I sought help on
numerous occasions and said many
many many times my children were in
danger in their father's care and I didn't
receive the urgent help I needed to save
them."
"I'm not quite sure what was going
through his mind,' said Camara's sister,
Jessica Espada who arrived at the
scene.
"It just caught all of us by surprise, and
it's very tragic, we aren't sure why he
would do such a thing?"

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