CANYON COUNTRY : Deaths of 2 Called Murder-Suicide

A man apparently despondent after learning that he had cancer shot and killed his fiancee and then himself Friday afternoon in a mobile home they shared in Canyon Country, sheriff’s deputies said.

The bodies of Charles R. McEntire, 46, and Gisela Davidson, 54, were discovered about 1 p.m. by paramedics.

A neighbor and former roommate of Davidson’s called authorities after repeated knocks on their door went unanswered.

Sheriff’s Lt. Nancy Reid said Davidson was shot three times and McEntire once.

“We are treating this as a murder-suicide,” Reid said.

Neighbors told authorities they heard shots fired at 11 p.m. Thursday, Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Spear said.

Jonci Juckno, 45, Davidson’s former roommate at the mobile home park in the 21200 block of Jimpson Way, said the couple had told her that they planned to get married in December.

Juckno also said McEntire had been told by doctors within the last week that he had cancer, and he had been depressed.

She described him as possessive and said he had been acting strangely.

“It was like he was telling her, ‘If I’m dying, you’re going with me,’ ” she said.

McEntire, whose birthday was Thursday, had been a truck driver at the Los Angeles Times’ Valley plant in Chatsworth since 1984.

A spokeswoman for the Times said McEntire had been missing from work for more than a week.