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California Dad Loses on Stock Market, Buys Gun, Kills Family of 5, Self
7 October 2008
Los Angeles Times
Karthik Rajaram had fallen hard.
The 45-year-old Porter Ranch financial manager who once made more than $1.2 million in a London-based venture fund had lost his job. His luck playing the stock market ran out.
On Sept. 16, he bought a gun. He wrote two suicide notes and a last will and testament. And then, sometime between Saturday night and Monday morning, he killed his wife, mother-in-law and three sons, and took his own life.
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