California man kills wife, teen daughter in murder-suicide: authorities

A 52-year-old antheral killed his woman and teenage girl earlier taking his ain beingness successful a shooting wrong a Los Angeles County location Thursday morning, authorities said.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded astir 8 a.m. to a study of an battle with a deadly limb astatine a location successful Lakewood, a metropolis astir 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. A caller told dispatchers her begetter had fired a weapon astatine her and was lying unconscious nearby, deputies said.

When deputies arrived, they met the caller, a 19-year-old woman, extracurricular the home. She was not injured and was taken successful for questioning.

Inside the house, deputies recovered a antheral lying connected the level successful the den with a gunshot coiled to his precocious torso. He was identified arsenic the begetter and shooter, Hector Lionel Alfaro, 52.

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Roxana Rodriguez, 48, and her 17-year-old daughter, Sienna Alfaro, were killed successful the shooting. (GoFundMe)

Deputies past discovered Alfaro’s 48-year-old wife, Roxana Rodriguez, successful a chamber suffering from gunshot wounds to her torso. In a 2nd bedroom, deputies recovered the couple’s 17-year-old daughter, Sienna Alfaro, who had besides been shot. All 3 were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

The murder-suicide happened successful a location successful Lakewood, California, connected Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (FOX11 Los Angeles)

"Through investigation, Homicide Investigators learned gunshots were heard wrong the residence by Alfaro’s 19-year-old girl portion she was asleep," the sheriff’s section said successful a connection obtained by FOX11 Los Angeles. "Alfaro past appeared adjacent her equipped with a handgun and changeable astatine her respective times; however, she was not struck by the gunfire. Alfaro past changeable himself portion lasting adjacent his 19-year-old daughter."

Two firearms were recovered from the home.

Authorities identified the shooter arsenic Hector Lionel Alfaro, 52, the hubby of Rodriguez and begetter to Sienna. (FOX11 Los Angeles)

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Authorities person not identified a motive. The probe remains ongoing.

"Our hearts are breached arsenic we stock the tragic nonaccomplishment of a loving parent and her daughter, whose lives were taken by an enactment of unimaginable violence," wrote Andrew, the hubby to the couple’s eldest girl Desiree, successful a GoFundMe post. "This devastating nonaccomplishment has near down their surviving children, who are present facing the satellite without the radical who meant everything to them."

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Sienna’s shot teammate, Hazel Ferman, remembered her person arsenic "a ray of sunshine" astatine a candlelight vigil connected Saturday, according to KABC-TV.

"She's a precise jolly person," Ferman said. "Her grin would agleam up the room. Her vigor was conscionable retired of this world, antheral similar she would locomotion in, adjacent though she's a shy girl, erstwhile she would grin is similar everybody knew that we conscionable connected."