CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SANTA CLARA
The man who gunned down his family in an apparent murder-suicide was an engineer at Yahoo who was helping his brother-in-law settle into Silicon Valley after arriving from southern India, police said Tuesday.
Investigators still don’t know the exact motive for Devan Kalathat’s rampage Sunday night that left six people dead and one critically injured at his home in an upscale neighborhood.
They said that they were exploring the possibility of a family dispute but that they did not believe it was financially motivated.
Police identified those killed as Kalathat’s 11-year-old son, Akhil Dev; his 4-year-old daughter, Negha Dev; his brother-in-law, 35-year-old Ashok Appu Poothemkandi; his sister-in-law, 25-year-old Suchitra Sivaraman; and the couple’s daughter, 11-month-old Ahana Ashok.
Kalathat’s wife, whose name was not released, was the only survivor. She remained in critical condition Tuesday with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Lt. Phil Cooke.
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