"One Crazy Thing Leads to Another"

Bruce J. Pardo of Covina is an unhappy man just recently coming out of a bitter divorce. His life took a turn for the worst. He killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party, hoping to take the life of his own mother, and then drive to his former wife's divorce lawyer to kill him and his family. Bruce had learned that his mother had sided with his former wife's opinion about their divorce and has been invited to party, given by his former in-laws. Sadly, she was not able to attend because of the flu. Luckily she didn't go or she too would have been a victim of this vicious crime.

Pardo "invented" a makeshift device that was supppose to spray gasoline over all of the guests, but something went wrong. It malfunctioned and exploded, leaving Bruce with burns all over his arms. After this happpened, he decided to change his plans of killing his former wife's divorce lawyer and family to his brother's house to kill himself. According to Lieutenant Buchanan, "We believe that he had some specific targets, including his wife and her attorney,” he said. “But he wanted to kill everybody. He was going to shoot anybody he came in contact with.”

As you can see, not all divorces are handled in the right way. Most of us are use to couples not getting along or one cheating on the other. This is a man that was insane and felt that it was absolutely necessary to go on a killing spree to solve this dilemma. How bad can life possibly be to take nine individuals lives and yours as well?

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