Al-Marsad newspaper: An American father in Florida committed a horrific crime, killing his two children before committing suicide, but what he did before killing his two children and his suicide raised astonishment.
The 41-year-old father, Umberto Zapata, decided to take a selfie with his two young children and posted it on his Facebook account, and less than an hour later, he killed them and then aimed the gun at himself and committed suicide, according to the American newspaper, The Daily Beast.
And Umberto Zapata appeared in the photo with his two children and they seemed to be in a state of happiness, and they were laughing.
In the details, revealed by the investigations in the US state of Florida, the father published a picture of himself with his 12-year-old daughter, Baleria, and his 9-year-old son, Matthias, at 8:36 pm on Tuesday, and at 9:26 pm, the police were called due to a shooting incident. In Miami outside an apartment complex.
The suspect’s estranged wife, who was at home at the time of the incident, said she had quarreled earlier that day over the whereabouts of their children, noting that her husband had suffered from an untreated mental illness.