LAKE HAVASU CITY - A gunman entered a home here and fatally shot five people, including the mother of his two children, before fleeing with the kids to Southern California, where he killed himself, police said Sunday.
In all, six people died. Authorities said they found four people dead and two others wounded at the home. One of the injured died of his wounds early Sunday at a local hospital, police said.
The apparent gunman, identified as 26-year-old Brian Diez, was found dead hours later at a home in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. The two children - a 4-year-old and a 13-month-old - were unharmed at the house with relatives, police said.
Police went to the Lake Havasu City home just before midnight Saturday after a woman called saying an intruder had shot several people.
Police identified the dead as 23-year-old Deborah Langstaff; 24-year-old Primo Verdone; 42-year-old Russell Nyland; and 20-year-old Ashley Nyland.
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The two wounded people - Brock Kelson, 20, and Deborah Nyland, 44 - were taken to a local hospital, where Kelson died, police said.
At about 3:30 a.m., San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies went to the Rancho Cucamonga home on a report of a suicide. Deputies found Diez dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
Diez fathered the two children with Deborah Langstaff during a long-term relationship, but the couple had been estranged, Lake Havasu City police said.
The Western Arizona city of about 52,000 residents is on the shore of a lake formed by a Colorado River dam built in 1938. Lake Havasu City, about 230 miles northwest of Tucson, is perhaps best known as the home of the relocated London Bridge and as a spring-break destination.
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