Overview
- Police identified 35-year-old Ziyi Lu as the suspected attacker who died by suicide after the killings of her husband, 2-year-old son and mother-in-law.
- The victims were named as Danxiong Gao, 40, and his mother, Kegang Xie, 69; the child’s name is being withheld because of age.
- Officers responded around 8 a.m. Saturday to the 3400 block of Vale Court after Lu’s father-in-law discovered the bodies and called 911.
- Autopsies determined all four died from knife-related injuries, and investigators recovered a suspected weapon from the home.
- Police Chief Peter Newsham called the scene “the worst possible nightmare” and said the motive remains unknown.