Background: There was a crime scene investigation at the suspected murder-suicide scene in Georgia on May 8, 2024 (via Gwinnett County Police). Inset: Carlos Rodriguez, Chadal Rodriguez and Arianny Rodriguez (via GoFundMe).
Three siblings are dead in a murder-suicide after the police found their bodies — along with the body of their mother's ex-boyfriend — near Atlanta, Georgia.
The Gwinnett County Police shared on Facebook that the alleged shooter of Arianny Arias Rodriguez, 13, Carlos Michelle Rodriguez, 9, and Chadal Rodriguez, 11, was Jose Plascencia, 56, of Norcross, Georgia.
The mother of the children, Karina Rodriguez, agreed to let Plascencia, her ex, take the children “to grab a bite to eat” on May 8. She was at a local hospital with one of her injured children, whom she had with Plascencia, and agreed to remain there as he took the Rodriguez siblings out for food.
Police found the bodies near Lucky Shoals Park on Britt Road around 1 a.m. when they investigated a suspicious vehicle parked on a pedestrian trail.
“The officer called out to occupants but got no response. He approached the 4-door passenger car and found the bodies of four individuals inside,” police said.
All three children had been shot, and it appeared that Plascencia had shot himself, according to the police.
In a statement on GoFundMe, Rodriguez expressed her devastation over “the tragic loss of my three little angels.”
“I am devastated with my heart in pieces, my world was my children and I was mother and father to them so that they never lacked anything and they took the lives of my little angels from me,” she said.
Rodriguez plans to use the funds to bury her children in her home country of the Dominican Republic.
An investigation is ongoing, although the suspected shooter is dead, according to the police.
For those facing domestic violence, calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline are safe and confidential at 1-800-799-7233. You can also visit thehotline.org.
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