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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/07/mo-man-kills-4-and-5-year-old-sons-and-self-in-murder-suicide-police-say/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw6&wpmm=1
Christopher Cadenbach met his mother, Diane, and his two sons, 5-year-old Ethan and 4-year-old Owen, for what police called a “pleasant day at the park” in St. Louis County on Saturday afternoon.
The elder son was in kindergarten at West Elementary, in Washington, Mo. The younger was in preschool.
Cadenbach’s estranged wife and the boys’ mother, Elisa Sartorius-Cadenbach, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he was always “a very attentive, loving, over-the-top caring individual for these boys.”
That changed Saturday in the most horrible way.
Sartorius-Cadenbach had accused Cadenbach of domestic abuse after she told him she wanted a divorce. She said he hurt her twice in the past nine days and sent a photograph of her bruised face to a friend, who forwarded it to police.
In response, officers went searching for Cadenbach on Saturday, while he was at the park, the Post-Dispatch reported.
He seemed to be aware of the search.
He told his mother that he “wasn’t going to be taken alive” and planned to commit “suicide by cop,” St. Louis County officials told KMOV-TV. At about 6:30 p.m., he took her Ford Focus, loaded his sons into it and sped off, leaving her behind.
His mother called police, who issued an Amber Alert.
After nearly an hour, a St. Louis County park ranger noticed the car in Cliff Cave Park along the Mississippi River, just before 8 p.m. The ranger called reinforcements, and a county police helicopter approached the scene. From the air, they watched a man walk toward the car.
Gunshots immediately followed.
“He was shooting his children,” St. Louis County Deputy Chief Ken Cox told the Post-Dispatch.
Police engaged Cadenbach in what Cox said was a “pitch-black” scene.
But police said Cadenbach, 43, first fatally shot Ethan and Owen, then himself.
Christopher Cadenbach met his mother, Diane, and his two sons, 5-year-old Ethan and 4-year-old Owen, for what police called a “pleasant day at the park” in St. Louis County on Saturday afternoon.
The elder son was in kindergarten at West Elementary, in Washington, Mo. The younger was in preschool.
Cadenbach’s estranged wife and the boys’ mother, Elisa Sartorius-Cadenbach, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he was always “a very attentive, loving, over-the-top caring individual for these boys.”
That changed Saturday in the most horrible way.
Sartorius-Cadenbach had accused Cadenbach of domestic abuse after she told him she wanted a divorce. She said he hurt her twice in the past nine days and sent a photograph of her bruised face to a friend, who forwarded it to police.
In response, officers went searching for Cadenbach on Saturday, while he was at the park, the Post-Dispatch reported.
He seemed to be aware of the search.
He told his mother that he “wasn’t going to be taken alive” and planned to commit “suicide by cop,” St. Louis County officials told KMOV-TV. At about 6:30 p.m., he took her Ford Focus, loaded his sons into it and sped off, leaving her behind.
His mother called police, who issued an Amber Alert.
After nearly an hour, a St. Louis County park ranger noticed the car in Cliff Cave Park along the Mississippi River, just before 8 p.m. The ranger called reinforcements, and a county police helicopter approached the scene. From the air, they watched a man walk toward the car.
Gunshots immediately followed.
“He was shooting his children,” St. Louis County Deputy Chief Ken Cox told the Post-Dispatch.
Police engaged Cadenbach in what Cox said was a “pitch-black” scene.
But police said Cadenbach, 43, first fatally shot Ethan and Owen, then himself.
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