Suicide-Murder Home Turned Into a Shrine

A large floral bouquet with a card that says, “We wish we could have been of help,” was placed on an armchair in front of the modest brown Reseda house. Rosary beads were tacked to the doors. Messages of love and affection have been scrawled on the walls. These are some reminders of the tragedy that occurred here a week ago, when Roxanne Jones, apparently despondent over the breakup of her marriage and her struggle to provide for her three children, shot them to death as they slept, then turned the gun on herself. In the last week, the house that she rented has been turned into a shrine by friends, family and strangers. A family photo of Jones and her three children--Brandi Fernandez, 15, Leticia Fernandez, 13, and Jeremiah Jones, 7--has been pinned to the front door. Brandi and Leticia were buried Wednesday after a service that drew 500 friends and relatives to the St. Didacus Church in Sylmar, where the girls sometimes attended church with their father, Joaquin Fernandez of San Fernando.