Father and Daughters Found Dead in Apparent Placentia Murder-Suicide

Police respond to reports of a stabbing that left two children and their father dead in Placentia, Calif., on Oct. 7, 2020. Courtesy of the Placentia Police Department

Two 9-year-old girls and their father were discovered dead on Oct. 7 in Placentia, California, in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

Police said they responded to reports of “unknown trouble with two children stabbed” in the 400 block of Swanson Avenue shortly after 12:38 a.m.