Full coverage of the Chrismas eve rampage
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Mourners gathered today to say goodbye to the family members killed in the shooting rampage. Here are brief biographies.
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Covina’s small, tight-knit police department put its heart and soul into the Christmas Eve shooting investigation, trying to unravel a case that shocked the nation and devastated the community.
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Accounts by relatives in the U.S. and Mexico reveal what happened after the elder Ortegas and 25 to 30 guests were confronted by gunman Bruce Jeffrey Pardo.
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Authorities in Covina say the Christmas Eve shooter planned to kill his mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney.
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Minutes before the Christmas Eve attack, the extended Ortega family had exchanged holiday greetings with relatives in their native Torreon, Mexico.
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Relatives of those killed Christmas Eve are trying to arrange care for children who lost one or both parents in the rampage.
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‘I have to be honest with you, I’m having trouble holding myself together,’ Nancy Windsor, 72, says after her son killed his ex-wife and eight members of her family.
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Bruce Pardo had expressed distress over his divorce proceedings.
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Those who knew the Ortega family, nine of whom were killed at a Christmas Eve party by a distraught ex-husband, recall them as a close-knit, warm and welcoming group.
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Police have released the names of the nine people believed killed in the Christmas Eve massacre in Covina.
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Bruce Pardo’s wife was appalled to learn that years earlier he had abandoned a brain-damaged son but still claimed him as a tax write-off.
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Authorities say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, dressed in a Santa suit, opened fire at a Christmas Eve party and then set the house ablaze. He is later found dead of a gunshot wound.
