Coast Guard serviceman kills wife and seven-year-old son after a domestic dispute before turning gun on himself
44-year-old John Stanley Presnar, who had served in the coast guard, was found dead along with his wife and seven-year-old son at their home in an apparent double murder-suicide
A U.S. Coast Guard serviceman shot and killed his wife and son before turning the gun on himself. The 44-year-old John Stanley Presnar was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home near the 11400 block of Southwest 242nd Lane in southwest Miami-Dade near Homestead along with his 39-year-old wife Gretchen Presnar and his seven-year-old son.
According to the Miami Herald, Presnar, an electronics technician First Class who worked out of a Coast Guard base in Miami Beach, also shot his eight-year-old daughter. The girl was airlifted to the nearby Nicklaus Children's Hospital in critical condition. The two children's identities have not been made public.
