Father Suspected Of Killing Three Family Members Found Dead

Jonathon Walker was wanted for the murders of two women and a 7-year-old girl. His body was found late Saturday morning.

Police in New York City have recovered the body of a man who had been wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of two women and a 7-year-old girl in Queens early Saturday morning.

Jonathon Walker, 34, had been sought over the incident which critically injured a 12-year-old girl, as well as killing her 12-year-old sister and the girls' 31-year-old mother and 62-year-old grandmother.

The Associated Press reported that 12-year-old Christina Walker and 7-year-old Kayla Walker were Walker's daughters. Their mother, Shantai Hale, was his girlfriend, relatives told the AP, while Viola Warren was the girls' grandmother.

Those killed were all shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical personnel, according to police.

The shooting took place around 5:40 a.m. ET on Saturday on a residential street near New York's J.F.K. airport.

Walker's body was found with a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his vehicle roughly five miles from the house later in the morning, police told BuzzFeed News.

"I can't believe this happened. I can't believe this happened," the girls' great-grandmother Doreen Warren told the AP.

"There was no indication of anything that would remotely make [Jonathon Walker] do this," Wendell Warren, brother to the slain grandmother, told the AP.

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