Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo is the "Santa Shooter". Eight people were found dead after a Christmas 2008 shooting at a Los Angeles-area house.

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Santa shooter carried secret guilt, attorney says The man who police say dressed as Santa Claus and killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party lived with guilt from an incident that left his son from a previous relationship a paraplegic, according to an attorney who once represented the woman in that relationship. Prime suspect Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police said committed suicide hours after he went on a shooting rampage and started a raging house fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, had a son who sustained severe brain damage several years ago in an apparent swimming pool accident while he was ... Read Full Story
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Former in-laws identified among victims of Santa shooter The former parents-in-law of a man accused of killing nine people at a Christmas Eve party were among the remains of six people identified Saturday by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. Three other people remain listed as "missing" and "unidentified" because their remains were too badly burned in the raging house fire that followed the shootings. Police said Bruce Jeffrey Pardo committed suicide after he went on a shooting rampage dressed as Santa Claus at the party in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina. He targeted his ex-wife, 43-year-old Sylvia Pardo, and her family, police ... Read Full Story
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Police: Santa shooter planned to kill divorce attorney, mother The man who police say dressed as Santa Claus and killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party may have also had plans to kill his mother and his former wife’s divorce attorney, police said Monday night. Prime suspect Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police said committed suicide hours after he went on a shooting rampage and started a raging house fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, left a rental car with a gasoline canister inside outside the home of attorney Scott Nord, said Pat Buchanan of the Covina Police Department. Police previously said ... Read Full Story
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Bomb explodes in car used by suspected ‘Santa’ shooter A pipe bomb exploded Thursday night in a rental car used a day earlier by a man suspected in a Christmas Eve attack that left at least eight people dead, police said. The car was parked outside a Sylmar, California, home where Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, committed suicide hours after he allegedly — dressed as Santa Claus — opened fire at a holiday party and then started a raging blaze inside a Covina, California, home, police said. Investigators have yet to identify eight charred bodies recovered from the burned house, which belonged to the parents ... Read Full Story
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Police: Burns from fire altered ‘killer Santa’ plan After shooting several people at the home of his former in-laws, police say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, still dressed as Santa Claus, sprayed gasoline throughout the home intending to set it on fire. But his plan went awry. The home exploded, windows were blown out, and part of Pardo’s Santa suit melted onto his skin. Read the rest here Police: Burns from fire altered ‘killer Santa’ plan - CNN.com Man Upset By Divorce Dresses As Santa, Kills At Least 9 At … A man who carried out a Christmas Eve massacre and arson dressed as Santa at ... Read Full Story
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