Health, Financial Woes May Have Led to Inglewood Killings

Health and financial problems may have pushed a man to shoot his wife’s pregnant sister, her husband and two young daughters before turning the gun on himself, Inglewood police said Wednesday.

Silvano Tringali, 41, used a spare key to enter his sister-in-law’s home in the 3600 block of West 110th Street sometime after 2 a.m. Monday as the family slept, said Lt. Mike McBride.

Armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, Tringali walked into one of the bedrooms and shot Nora Anaya, 35, and her husband, Ignacio Camacho, 37, McBride said. Tringali then moved to a separate bedroom, where he shot Jessica Anaya Diaz, 10, and Vanessa Anaya Diaz, 9, Anaya’s children from a previous marriage, before killing himself, he said.

The family had no known history of disagreements, but Tringali’s wife told police her unemployed husband had been despondent.

His wife, whom police did not identify, reported him armed and missing Monday morning after waking and realizing he was not at their Lennox home.

A license plate search led police to Anaya’s house that afternoon, where officers found the victims’ bodies, all with gunshot wounds to the head, McBride said.

Police are still unsure about a motive.

“Tringali was depressed over financial issues,” McBride said.

But police were also investigating whether Tringali’s health problems, and medications he might have been taking, may have been a factor. Tringali weighed over 400 pounds and suffered from back problems, McBride said.

Anaya and her sister’s family were in the process of building a house adjacent to Anaya’s Inglewood home. Delays in construction of the new home, police said, may have upset Tringali.

At a news conference at Inglewood police headquarters Wednesday, officials said little about the victims. Relatives, however, said Anaya and Camacho were married three weeks ago and that Anaya was five months pregnant.

Gonzalo Camacho, 47, Ignacio Camacho’s older brother, said he met Anaya and her children for the first time the day of the couple’s wedding. Ignacio Camacho, who hailed from Guanajuato, Mexico, worked as a manager of a Sav-on drugstore in Santa Monica, Gonzalo Camacho said.

“This is crazy,” said Gonzalo Camacho. “They looked so happy. He never told me there were any problems.”

Relatives said Anaya managed a Sav-on store in Pacific Palisades.