Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1998
Frazier Park man who shot his 19-year-old daughter to death and then
committed suicide was angry at his ex-wife for marrying another man and at his
daughter for having a gay friend, according to a suicide note, police said.
James Andrade, 63, drove to his ex-wife's Sherman Oaks home in a rental
car Monday night and waited inside the house until his daughter, Diana
Andrade, returned home.
When Diana Andrade came home, she and James Andrade sat down on a living
room couch and began talking, Los Angeles Police Det. Stephen Fisk said. Diana
Andrade's stepfather was watching television in the same room, with his back
turned to them. Her mother was in her bedroom.
"He was sitting on the couch talking with his daughter and then, for no
apparent reason--there was no argument, no harsh words--he shot her and then
turned the gun on himself," Fisk said.
Investigators searched James Andrade's car and found a shotgun and an
empty vodka bottle. Coroner's officials who inspected the body found a second
gun and a note in his pants pocket, Fisk said.
Diana Andrade's parents split up 10 years ago and she had been living
with her mother and stepfather for three years, neighbors said.
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