By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community in Los Angeles, police said Monday.
Coroner's assistant chief Ed Winter said the family was from India.
Officers found the bodies Monday morning after the wife failed to show up at a neighbor's home to go to work as a pharmacy bookmaker, Deputy Chief Michel Moore said. The deaths occurred sometime after Saturday evening. A handgun that had been bought Sept. 16 was found in the father's grasp, Moore said. Karthik Rajaram, 45, left two suicide notes - one for police and one for friends and relatives - and a will.
"The source of it appears to be a financial state, a crisis if you will, that this man became embroiled in that has unfolded over the past weeks," Moore said.
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