I Am Impressed At How Much Medicine Had Improved From 1900 to 1946

 Pasadena, Cal. (1946)

11/15/1946: The father, 33, was driving with his family to the train station to return home to Michigan.  There was a quarrel about the decision to return.  He shot his two children to death and shot his wife through the head.  Doctors thought her recovery still possible.

Category: family

Suicide: yes

Cause: quarrel

Weapon: firearm[1]

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[1] "Father Kills Children, Self, Wounds Wife," Oakland Tribune, Nov. 5, 1946, 14.

The bullet enterer her left temple and exited the back of her head and doctors still had hope for recovery.