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Los Angeles Police investigators walk to a news conference
in front of the home, left, where six bodies were found in a
gated community.



LOS ANGELES â€"  The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door.

But when police summoned by worried friends of the residents got inside Monday, they found a horror â€" six members of a family fatally shot in a murder-suicide committed by an unemployed man in financial crisis.

The body of 45-year-old Karthik Rajaram, a gun clutched in one hand, was found by officers who followed a trail of carnage through the home in a gated community in the Porter Ranch area of the San Fernando Valley.

His victims, most slain in their beds, were his wife, three sons and his mother-in-law.

"Absolute devastation," Deputy Chief Michel Moore told reporters outside the home.

Investigators quickly found two suicide letters and a will, and determined that the man once worked for a major accounting firm and was at least the part-owner of a financial holding company.

"The source of it appears to be a financial state, a crisis if you will, that this man became embroiled in that has unfolded over the past weeks," Moore said.

The man wrote in his suicide letter that he felt he had two options â€" to just kill himself or to kill himself and his family â€" and decided the second option was more honorable, Moore said.

The bodies were found when officers were sent to make a check on the home Monday morning after the wife failed to show up at a neighbor's home to go to work as a pharmacy bookkeeper, Moore said.

Officers found the mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, dead in bed on the first floor. Upstairs, they found a 19-year-old son, Krishna Rajaram, dead in bed in the master bedroom.

The gunman's 39-year-old wife, Subasri, was found in another room, also apparently shot while sleeping, Moore said.

In an adjoining room, a 12-year-old son, Ganesha, was dead on the floor, and his 7-year-old brother, Arjuna, was dead in bed. Their father's body also was found there with a handgun "in his grasp," Moore said. The gun was purchased Sept. 16.

Coroner's assistant chief Ed Winter said the victims were shot multiple times.

The killings occurred some time between midnight Saturday and early Monday morning, Winter said.

The father had a business degree and formerly worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, but had been unemployed for several months, Moore said. The deputy chief did not identify the financial holding company, though Nevada records show an incorporation there.

Moore did not specify what financial trouble the man had been in. He noted that the family did not own the home.

The man had no record of mental disabilities or contacts with mental health professionals in Los Angeles County, Moore said.

PricewaterhouseCoopers spokesman Steven Silber said Karthik Rajaram last worked for the company in 1999, but declined to offer any further information about him.

Sony Pictures Entertainment spokesman Steve Elzer did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Karthik Rajaram is listed as a co-manager of a corporation called SKGL LLC, which is incorporated in Nevada, according to state records. He formed the corporation for his family's assets and used his family members' initials to form the name, said Las Vegas attorney Christopher R. Grobl.

SKGL was incorporated in 1999 and renewed its annual business license in December 2007. Grobl did not know what sort of business SKGL was or why Rajaram incorporated in Nevada.(fownews.com)

neighbors didn't hear gunshots?

Basin silencer gun iya gigamit   Bem mao wla silay nabati.

It appears that the father is India-born, and probably an Indian national. All the names in the story have Indian trace.

Let us always remember that no matter how hard life can be, to be alive, in all its pains and sorrows, is a billion times better than to be dead.

faeta fud tawon oi, death na lang jud intawon ang iyang nahuna-hunaan nga solution

My prayers to the entire family. God have mercy on their eternal soul.

oh my, is this some sort of an outcome to the current financial crisis in the US? if that's the case, it's very likely that we can hear more news like this in the coming months? oh my God. i hope not.

How sad, yes mike India sounding name ila family name.Pastilan I bet he still has lots of money and assets but maybe worried lang gyud kaayo ni siya.Remind me of our neighbor here nga when he feel theres coming financial crisis nag hikog sad.Di niya ma accept ang idea nga he has to deny himself ug butang nga iya gusto.Mao ni mga big shots feeling nila wa nay pag laum magsegi hunahuna nga they can't live without new things unsaon ang pride.Sometimes we should deny ourselve of things we dont really need.At least wala apila iya asawa ug anak but then they found out nga they were far beyond mabankrupt kay dako pa diay sila kaayo ug savings sa bangko then they own their farm ground nga worth sad how many million.
Life is short in exchange of eternity.

    May they rest in eternal peace.