Sam Friedlander apparently bludgeoned his wife with a table leg during a bedroom struggle and shot his two children in their beds, then went down to the basement and shot himself, police said today.... Each child was shot in the abdomen with the same 12-gauge shotgun that Friedlander used to kill himself.

Jezebel breaks down the appalling way the report, quoted above, goes on to blame the victims. The murderer was, according to his friends, "belittled" and "emasculated" by his wife and her parents... so, gee, what choice did he have but to beat his wife to death and then shoot his children in a manner that would ensure both died in agony? Christ.