Dad murders pregnant girlfriend, 1-year-old son (Alhambra, California)

Dad ANGEL BERRIOS JR. was unemployed and "struggling with a substance abuse problem." He was depressed, you know, and felt like a failure. So somehow this explains why he gunned down a 1-year-old baby and a pregnant woman? NO.

The fact that YOU may feel like a failure does NOT explain why you gun down two innocent people. Naturally, the family thinks he was a "good kid," but these killings tend to be done by supremely narcissistic individuals who think of others as little more than extensions of themselves. Not just because you're a little blue and lacking a job.

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Three people found dead in Alhambra home in apparent murder-suicide
By Nathan McIntire, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/08/2010 05:33:55 PM PDT

ALHAMBRA - A 25-year old man who told a friend he felt like a failure apparently killed his pregnant 22-year-old girlfriend and their 1-year-old son Thursday morning before shooting himself to death.

Awakened by gunshots, family members found the three dead inside a bedroom of a home in the 800 block of South Sierra Vista Avenue and called police at about 4:30 a.m., said Alhambra police Sgt. Joe Flannagan, who called the scene "disturbing."

"There isn't any other way to describe it," he said.

Eight other people were staying at the four-bedroom home, said Flannagan.

Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner identified the victims as Angel Berrios Jr., 24, Natasha Katherine Cobian, 23, and 1-year-old Angel Berrios III.

Corral said Berrios Jr.'s case was preliminarily ruled a suicide. He described him as the "shooter suspect."

Police were unwilling to call the case a murder-suicide. Alhambra police spokeswoman Lt. Edith Lopez said that determination won't be made until police have completed their investigation.

But Laura Lara , 42, a friend of the Berrios family, said Berrios Jr.'s 16-year-old little sister walked into the bedroom early Thursday morning after hearing gunshots and saw him holding a gun.

"He told her to get out and then took his own life," Lara said.

Berrios Jr. was struggling with a substance abuse problem and had moved with his girlfriend and children into his mother's Alhambra home to get sober, Lara said.

Berrios Jr. also had a 3-year-old daughter, she said. The girl survived because she was sleeping in his mother's room at the time of the shooting, Lara said.

The unemployed Berrios Jr. had recently become very depressed, Lara said.

"He felt like a failure and talked about it a lot yesterday. And (his family) woke up and they were all dead," Lara said.

Lara described Berrios Jr. as a "good kid" and the "big brother" in the neighborhood. She said the stress of having another child on the way while being unemployed was weighing on him.
Corral said coroner's officials were investigating preliminary information that Cobian was pregnant.

"We'll find out during the examination tomorrow," he said.

Dozens of people from the neighborhood gathered outside a cordon of police tape outside the family's one-story white and red home, among them Father Jan Lundberg of the St. Therese Parish in Alhambra.

He said he was asked to come by Alhambra police because the grieving family is Catholic. He said he spoke to them and they were all shocked.

"They didn't see it coming," Lundberg said.

He stayed for several hours to be be a "peaceful influence" in the neighborhood, Lundberg said.
"There are a lot of people here and emotions are running high," he said.

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