{"id":52775,"date":"2026-01-19T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52775"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:53:00","slug":"california-man-kills-wife-teen-daughter-in-murder-suicide-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52775","title":{"rendered":"California man kills wife, teen daughter in murder-suicide: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 52-year-old man killed his wife and teenage daughter before taking his own life in a shooting inside a Los Angeles County<\/a> home Thursday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s deputies<\/a> responded around 8 a.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon at a home in Lakewood, a city about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. A caller told dispatchers her father had fired a gun at her and was lying unconscious nearby, deputies said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When deputies arrived, they met the caller, a 19-year-old woman, outside the home. She was not injured and was taken in for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the house, deputies found a man lying on the floor in the den with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. He was identified as the father and shooter, Hector Lionel Alfaro, 52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roxana Rodriguez, 48, and her 17-year-old daughter, Sienna Alfaro, were killed in the shooting. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputies then discovered Alfaro\u2019s 48-year-old wife, Roxana Rodriguez, in a bedroom suffering from gunshot wounds<\/a> to her torso. In a second bedroom, deputies found the couple\u2019s 17-year-old daughter, Sienna Alfaro, who had also been shot. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The murder-suicide happened in a home in Lakewood, California, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (FOX11 Los Angeles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Through investigation, Homicide Investigators learned gunshots were heard within the residence by Alfaro\u2019s 19-year-old daughter while she was asleep,” the sheriff\u2019s department said in a statement obtained by FOX11 Los Angeles<\/a>. “Alfaro then appeared near her armed with a handgun and shot at her several times; however, she was not struck by the gunfire. Alfaro then shot himself while standing near his 19-year-old daughter.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two firearms<\/a> were recovered from the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities identified the shooter as Hector Lionel Alfaro, 52, the husband of Rodriguez and father to Sienna. (FOX11 Los Angeles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities have not identified a motive. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our hearts are broken as we share the tragic loss of a loving mother and her daughter, whose lives were taken by an act of unimaginable violence,” wrote Andrew, the husband to the couple\u2019s eldest daughter Desiree, in a GoFundMe post. “This devastating loss has left behind their surviving children, who are now facing the world without the people who meant everything to them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sienna\u2019s soccer teammate, Hazel Ferman, remembered her friend as “a ray of sunshine” at a candlelight vigil on Saturday, according to KABC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She’s a very jolly person,” Ferman said. “Her smile would bright up the room. Her energy was just out of this world, man like she would walk in, even though she’s a shy girl, when she would smile is like everybody knew that we just connected.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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