The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office released the name of the woman who shot and killed her husband and two children before turning the gun on herself.
Thirty-year-old Marine Basmajian, her husband Khajag Basmajian, 31, and their two young children – 2-year-old Alec Basmajian and Ella Basmajian, who was six days old – all died of gunshot wounds to the head. The LA Medical Examiner listed the husband and children’s deaths as homicides.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is continuing its investigation.
LAPD officers had responded to a call of a shooting at the Basmajian home on the 16200 block of Londelius Street just before 8 p.m. on May 27. They discovered all four members of the family dead upon arrival.
Several neighbors who spoke with the San Fernando Valley Sun/el Sol the day after the shooting described the Basmajian family as quiet and reserved, and expressed shock and sadness over the tragic incident.
Andrea Morales, who has lived two houses away from the Basmajian home for nearly a decade, said she had never seen or heard anything to make her think “anything like this could ever happen.”
Family members of the Basmajians launched a GoFundMe page seeking contributions “to help cover funeral and memorial and other unexpected expenses during this difficult time.”
The page also shared descriptions of the deceased parents and children:
“Khajag was a devoted husband, loving father, cherished son, brother and friend. … Marine was a caring mother and wife. …. Alec brought joy and laughter wherever he went. … [He] couldn’t wait to meet his baby sister, Ella, who only lived to see the world Earth side for six days.”
For the GoFundMe page, go to: www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-khajag-marine-alec-and-baby-ella.
This is really heartbreaking but who needs 170k for funeral expenses that’s a ridiculous amount
Funerals will cost over $10k for one person.
I will never understand how a person could do this – especially to a totally innocent baby! Post partum depression? I am sure she killed herself to avoid jail, but…heartbreaking!
Those of us without severe psychiatric conditions would never understand how a mother could do this to her babies. Hopefully, more awareness will come to light for mental health disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. My guess is she had previous mental health issues without pregnancy. Prayers for their families to endure such horrific pain.
Often, calling someone mentally ill just hides the real circumstances why someone acted the way s/he did. It’s like saying someone is bad, a witch, and so on. I recommend abstaining from the psychotherapism ideology (psychology) and instead use social science and biological/epigenetic factors.
Those of us without severe psychiatric conditions would never understand how a mother could do this to her babies. Hopefully, more awareness will come to light for mental health disorders in pregnancy and postpartum. My guess is she had previous mental health issues without pregnancy. Prayers for their families to endure such horrific pain.
They look on the picture like a normal, abled, pretty middle-class or even rich-class family, so I wonder about the motivation, because from the outside I can’t find any. Is the police sure that the mother shot the husband and children? I was thinking that the husband shot the children then himself and the mother sadly found them and couldn’t live with this so she choose to shot herself.
If she received a diagnosis of post-partum depression, she may also have received a prescription, such as for an antidepressant. A lot of people don’t realize that antidepressants carry a warning of possible worsening depression, as well as increased thought of suicide. So, what drug was this lady possibly taking and did her psychiatrist bother to warn her of the known adverse effects?