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Aug 7, 2008 5:49 pm US/Central
FW Police Investigate Double Murder-Suicide
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Fort Worth Police are investigating what they say is a double murder-suicide. It happened at a house in the 4600 block of Birchbend in North Fort Worth.
Three members of the same family are dead. Police say the family had been dead for at least two days.
The bodies of 14-year-old Mailen Pizarro, her 36-year-old mother Eliana Vece and her 44-year-old husband James Vece were discovered by police Wednesday night at their North Fort Worth home.
Internal struggles between a young girl and her stepfather may have lead to the tragic deaths. Police believe James Vece killed his teenage daughter and his wife and then turned the gun on himself.
Authorities say Eliana Vece was a bi-lingual teacher at Brandenburg Elementary School in Irving. When she didn't show up to work for the last two days her colleagues got concerned.
Irving police were called and they then asked Fort Worth police to do a welfare check. An officer went to the house a short time later and made the gruesome discovery.
Fort Worth Police Department Lieutenant Paul Henderson told us when the officer arrived he looked through a window and saw the body of the teenage girl laying on the master bed.
The girl had been shot to death. Her mother had also been shot and killed.
The father's body was laying in the entrance way to the master bedroom. A pistol was found next to him.
Reverend Roland Johnson remembers well a young daughter and mother who turned to the church for spiritual guidance. Fort Worth police have no record of domestic disputes at the home, but Pastor Johnson says he was aware of turmoil in the family.
"In Eliana's case she would come up and ask for prayer for her family and particularly she would ask prayer for her daughter and her relationship with her step-dad," the pastor explained.
Mailen had just finished the 8th grade at Hillwood Middle School and would have attended Central High School in the fall.
David Jennings, 15, knew Mailen well and treated her like a sister. "I'm really angry that I couldn't do anything to stop it," the teenager said. "It just shocks me and makes me angry that something like this happened."
Neighbors say the couple always seemed to get along. But they did hear yelling in the house around 1:30 Tuesday morning and then three or four loud pops.
Late Thursday detectives showed up at the house to collect more evidence. In the meantime, friends and family made stops at the home leaving flowers and messages.
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