The shooting took place on Monday evening in the city of Sacramento, in the state’s north
A man shot and killed his three daughters and a chaperone before turning the gun on himself at a church in the Sacramento,Deputies responded to the church in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood of Sacramento on Monday evening after a church employee heard gunshots and called 911, said Sgt Rod Grassmann with the Sacramento county sheriff’s office.
The Sacramento county sheriff, Scott Jones, said Monday evening that investigators believe that the shooter had been estranged from the children’s mother, who had a restraining order against him. A domestic violence restraining order should haveThe mother was not present at the church at the time of the shooting and was unharmed, Jones said.
Mora Rojas was arrested in Merced county days before the shooting for allegedly driving under the influence, resisting arrest and assaulting a California Highway Patrol officer, theCourt records show the mother of Mora Rojas’s children had a five-year domestic violence restraining order against him, issued last May, which required he stay at least 100 yards from her and their daughters with the exception of visits supervised by a family friend, the Bee reported.
Officials did not know if the family members belonged to the church, which sits on a mostly residential block near a commercial area east of downtown Sacramento.
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