Florida man who killed his two children with a stolen gun and committed suicide, suffered from bipolarity

A Florida man who shot and killed his 12 year old daughter and his 9-year-old son, who later took his own life with a gun, suffered from bipolar disorder and was not taking adequate medication, according to a local media report on Thursday, citing a family source.

“He had some depression and maybe some bipolarity”, Luz Kuznitz told Local television 10, the mother of Humberto Tovar, aged 41, who was identified by the authorities as the author of the murder that has shocked the community.

The events occurred last Tuesday in the vicinity of a house in Miami Lakes , northwest of Miami, in what the Police described as a “domestic dispute”.

The same outlet also revealed that the weapon with which the father shot his two children and then took off his life was stolen from a bicycle shop where he worked in the city of Aventura, north of Miami Beach, according to Tovar’s mother.

Tovar’s wife and ex-wife, who He had previously picked up the children from school, had been trying unsuccessfully to communicate with the man because it was getting late for the two minors, and after tracking the father’s cell phone he managed to find his whereabouts: near of a canal where he found the three lifeless bodies.

As reported by local media, some neighbors heard the mother screaming and asking for help after find the lifeless bodies.

Magda Peña told the local channel NBC6 that when she rushed out into the street she found the mother trying to revive her children with pressure on her chest, and that she herself began to do the same for children under 9 years of age, although without success.

Tovar’s mother explained today to the Local channel 10 News that the place where the bodies were found was a place where his son frequently rode his bicycle because he loved the serenity of the lake.

For its part, the Spanish channel Telemundo 51, who also spoke with Kuznitz, states that the children’s father “was very pressured after the separation from his wife”.

According to Telemundo, Kuznitz d She claimed to have tried everything possible to help her son, who, according to her account, was hospitalized twice for psychiatric evaluation.