Dad shoots mom during child child custody exchange; daughter left to call 911 (Yakima, Washington)

UNNAMED DAD.

More mothers and children put in harm's way by granting custody/visitation rights to dangerous fathers. How much you want to bet that this father had a history of violence that was totally ignored by the authorities when they granted him his "rights"?

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/17/4827192/child-reports-murder-suicide-attempt.html

Child reports murder-suicide attempt in Yakima Co.

The Associated Press

Last modified: 2012-09-17T13:22:15Z
Published: Monday, Sep. 17, 2012 - 6:22 am

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Yakima Sheriff's office says a child called authorities to report his father shooting her mother then taking his own life.

Sgt. Mike Russell says that on Sunday evening authorities were notified of the shooting by a young girl, who said her father had shot her mother.

Russell says that the 32-year-old father and the 36-year-old woman had been estranged. He says that when the woman arrived at the man's residence in Yakima County to pick up the children, the couple got into a fight. He says the man then shot his wife.

The father called a relative to take the children and shot himself after they were out of the house. Russell says the woman survived and was taken to the hospital. Her condition was not immediately available.