By Ariel Barkhurst and Valentinio Lucio
San Antonio Express-News
Three people are dead after a double murder-suicide Saturday morning in which an elderly man shot and killed his wife and adult son before turning the gun on himself at the breakfast table of their Monte Vista home, authorities said.
Police Chief William McManus said that the man, who was in his late 70s to early 80s, called police dispatch at around 9:15 a.m. to report the shootings.
“He told the dispatcher, ‘There's been two homicides and there's about to be a suicide,'” McManus said.
Before the man hung up, he told the dispatcher he was going to “finish himself off,” according to a police report.
Police found the man, along with his elderly wife and 53-year-old son, in the kitchen of their home on the 200 block of East Summit Avenue. The son was lying face down on the floor and it appeared he was shot in the back of his head, while his mother was found slumped over in a chair at the breakfast table with a gunshot wound to the mouth, the police report states. The father was found on the floor with a black revolver nearby.
Other neighbors said the father was a retired Air Force colonel and that the son also retired from the military.
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