"Miserable" father built homemade car bomb to kill two-year-old son, friend and himself in double-murder suicide
26-year-old Jacob Schmoyer also had a history of schizophrenia and had received treatment for the same however, the outright motivation for this murder-suicide is not known.
A 26-year-old Pennsylvania father used a homemade bomb to kill himself, his son, and a friend in a double-murder suicide this past Saturday night. Jacob Schmoyer had reportedly been unhappy with his life for a long time and used a bomb he had constructed to commit the deed, with the motivations behind his actions still unclear.
According to People, the other two victims in the bombing were Schmoyer's two-year-old son, Jonathan, and his 66-year-old friend David Hallman. Speaking about the incident at a press conference, special agent Don Robinson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Philadelphia Field Division said that all three were inside the car when it exploded.