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Mon, 03-30-2009 - 2:21pm

Six members of family dead in murder-suicide

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/30/BAFN16PCHC.DTL&tsp=1

Six people, including three children, were shot and killed and a seventh victim is fighting for her life in what Santa Clara police are investigating as a murder-suicide, one of the deadliest such incidents in the Bay Area in recent memory.

The suspected gunman, a man, is believed to be among the dead inside a home on Headen Way in the city's upscale Rivermark community north of the Montague Expressway, said Santa Clara police Lt. Phil Cooke.

"We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide," Cooke said.

The identities of the victims weren't immediately released.

Police were called to the home at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday by a neighbor reporting that a woman was injured outside the home, Cooke said. Officers arrived and found five people dead inside the home, Cooke said. All had been shot.

Two of the dead were men, one of whom was believed to be the gunman, Cooke said. The other slain victims were children, including a boy, a girl and a young teenage girl or young adult woman, police said.

The woman found outside the home had also been shot, Cooke said. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was reported to be in critical condition.

An infant girl found injured at the home died early today, Cooke said.

Two handguns were found inside the residence, but police are awaiting the results of ballistics tests before determining whether one or both weapons were used, authorities said.

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