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ROWLAND HEIGHTS, Calif. -- A man shot and killed his wife and
two others in his home on New Year's Eve before his son wrestled
the gun away and fatally shot him in a chain of events
apparently set off by a dispute over a washing machine,
authorities said Friday.

The two other victims killed were the son's 48-year-old
girlfriend who also lives at the house in Rowland Heights and a
27-year-old man who was visiting, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department said.

The 54-year-old father was a heavy drinker with a large gun
collection, and authorities had made dozens of previous trips to
the home, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said.

Investigators were talking to surviving witnesses to figure out
what led to the father pulling out a semi-automatic pistol and
opening fire.

"It looks like it was a dispute between the dad and the son's
girlfriend, probably over using the washing machine," Sheriff's
Lt. John Corina told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. "For some
reason, this set the dad off."

The son, 33-year-old Christopher Morey, eventually recovered the
gun from his father and shot him, authorities said. Morey is
being held on suspicion of murder on $1 million bail,
authorities said. Deputies reached by phone did not know if he
has an attorney who could comment.

Morey and his girlfriend were living in the home with the 54-
year-old mother, who had recently had a stroke.

"They had been taking care of her," Corina said. "She was in a
hospital bed there in the middle of the living room."

Authorities have not released the name of any victims, but the
mother and brother of the 27-year-old were outside the home
Friday and told the Tribune his name was Ernesto Calzadilla and
he has an 8-month-old daughter.

The mother, Maria Cruz, said the family was nice to his son and
he liked being at the house.

But the brother, Wilfred Calzadilla, said Ernesto had generally
stopped going to the house because of worries about the father,
making an exception on New Year's Eve.

"Mixing alcohol and guns never ends good," Wilfred Calzadilla
said.

Rowland Heights demographics:

54.8% 28,458 Asian alone
31.7% 16,484 Hispanic
11.6% 6,025 White alone
1.4% 704 Two or more races
0.4% 185 Black alone
0.4% 202Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone
0.2% 119 American Indian alone
0.07% 34 Other race alone

Again, illegal Mexicans are the root cause of crime in an
American city.
 

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