Unhappy About Living With Them, Man Murders Fiancée's Dad, Injures Family Before Killing Self

A Massachusetts man fatally shot his fiancée's dad and injured her mother and sister before killing himself. The 25-year-old man, who was reportedly unhappy that his fiancée's family was living with him, had asked them to vacate his house before the shooting spree, reports said.

The officers responded to a house in Fall River around 3 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a 911 call from a woman who reported that her fiancé shot members of her family before shooting himself, NBC News reported.

The responding officers found four people with gunshot wounds at the residence, including the suspect, identified as Christopher Jean Baptiste. Baptiste, as well as his fiancee's dad, Hubert Labasquin, 69, were pronounced dead at the hospital, while his fiancée's unidentified sister, 25, and her mother, 59, were hospitalized with gunshot injuries. They are expected to survive.

According to a preliminary investigation, Baptiste's fiancée's family was living with the couple "for the past several months" while they were looking for another accommodation to live in.

On Tuesday evening, Baptiste reportedly told his fiancée that he was "unhappy with her family continuing to reside with them." He later held a gun at her and asked the family to leave, the district attorney's office said in a news release.

Soon after this, Labasquin got into a physical altercation with Baptiste, eventually leading to the fatal shooting. While Baptsite's fiance called 911, he shot her mother and sister before turning the gun on himself.

Baptiste had a valid license to carry the firearm, according to the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, the case is being investigated by prosecutors and state police, reports said.

In a similar murder-suicide case this week, a jilted lover of a young Texas woman killed himself after he fatally shot the woman in front of her 8-year-old daughter. The fatal shooting happened while the victim, identified as Kenia Osorio, was inside a parked vehicle outside Texas Children's Hospital while her child was in the backseat of the car. The cops found Osorio's and her shooter's bodies inside the vehicle while the child was uninjured.

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