Despite attempts at negotiation, the situation ended in the worst way imaginable for the grandchildren
It doesn’t happen often but this news story is perhaps among the most shocking of recent times. An elderly man allegedly killed his two grandchildren and then committed suicide at home after the very serious act. The two boys were both in their early teens.
The family drama that has shocked Spain in the last few hours, and which took place precisely on Sunday evening, has as its protagonist a grampa 72 years old. It seems that the elderly man first locked himself in the house with his 9 and 14 year old grandchildren. The phases of this terrible crime episode were agitated and painful for the community of the small town of Huétor Tájar.
Despite attempts to negotiation by the Civil Guard and other family members, the situation ended in the worst way imaginable. The grandfather shot his two grandchildren dead, and then took his own life with the same weapon.
On Monday morning, the police then had to recover the three bodies lifeless in the house located in Huétor Tájar. According to investigative sources, the man’s wife and daughter died last March in a road accident in Loja (near Granada). The vehicle was driven by the elderly man and violently impacted another vehicle. The grandchildren, present in the car, were injured in the accident.
Waiting for theautopsy which will determine the causes and exact time of the children’s death, investigators hypothesize that the man took his own life a few hours after killing his grandchildren. The alarm was raised around 9.40pm on Sunday. At that time it was reported that the man was armed and in a threatening attitude towards two relatives. The elderly man had barricaded himself in his house in Alfredo Nobel street in the municipality of Huétor Tájar, a town of just over 10 thousand inhabitants.
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