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Article: Ex-deputy kills 4 children, himself
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- Daily Breeze
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- March 27, 2002
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Ex-deputy kills 4 children, himself
MERCED -- A retired sheriff's deputy fatally shot his 5-year-old
daughter and his three teen-age stepchildren before killing himself
Tuesday while his ex-wife was jogging, investigators said.
Christine McFadden found her 17-year-old daughter lying dead in a
hallway near her bedroom when she returned to the house shortly after
7 a.m., said Merced County Sheriff's Sgt. Tom Cavallero. She rushed
next door to call police and then went back tothe gray ranch-style
home with deputies to find her three other children and her ex-
husband lying dead in separate bedrooms.
Former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy John Hogan, 49, was