2 Visitors Killed in Couple’s Dispute

A Placentia couple were killed Memorial Day weekend while visiting a friend in Northern California, authorities said Wednesday.

Thomas Richard Hunsaker, 39, and Kimberly Ann Hunsaker, 31, died from multiple gunshot wounds early Monday after they apparently were caught up in another couple’s domestic dispute, El Dorado County sheriff’s officials said.

Michael Edwin Hull, 48, broke into his estranged wife’s three-story home in Camino, a rural community about 40 miles east of Sacramento, and shot the couple with an assault-style semiautomatic pistol, said Lt. Kevin House of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. House said that Hull believed the Hunsakers were interfering in his marriage.

Hull broke into the home at about 4:30 a.m. Monday by smashing a glass window in a door and then confronted his wife, who had a restraining order against him, before bursting into the Hunsakers’ room, House said. Hull’s wife ran out of the house and called 911 on a cell phone.

A few minutes later, Hull called 911 on his own cell phone and told dispatchers he had just shot and killed two people.

He surrendered without incident a short time later and was booked into El Dorado County Jail, House said. Hull was arraigned Wednesday on two counts of murder. He is being held without bail.

The Hunsakers had a 3-year-old daughter, Katie, and 10-year-old son, Hans, from Thomas Hunsaker’s previous marriage. Hans was in the house at the time of the shooting but was unharmed, House said.