The father, Edelmiro Gonzales, in turn was shot and killed by a police officer. "Seven-year-old Adrian Gonzales was pronounced dead at the scene, while his 11-year-old brother, Edryn Gonzales, and their mother, Johanna, were both hospitalized in critical condition." http://wcbstv.com/local/paterson.fatal.shootings.2.1338507.html
UPDATE: Now we find out that dad Edelmiro Gonzales who gunned down and murdered his 7-year-old son, has a history of domestic violence. It also appears that Mom tried to protect herself and her children by obtaining restraining order, which the father obviously ignored. And that there was a "bitter custody dispute" (harrassment of the mother? threats to strip her of her children, leaving them at a heightened risk of injury and death?) Families of abusers are often conditioned into knee jerk defenses of their actions, which we see here. For all the talk that Dad wasn't really a "violent man," his actions prove otherwise.
"A Paterson man who murdered his young son and shot his estranged wife and a second son on a busy city street Saturday had a history of domestic violence and was under a restraining order at the time of the shootings, police said... Authorities declined to speculate on a motive for the rampage, but Edelmiro Gonzalez’s daughter said Sunday that her father was locked in a bitter custody dispute with his estranged wife, Johanna Gonzalez, 31. 'He was just fed up with the situation,' said the daughter, Yulisa Robles, 30..."
[Charming. The daughter-defender is the same age, note, as the second wife he married when she was... 18? 19?] http://www.northjersey.com/passaic112909_Police_Paterson_Father_who_killed_son_shot_family_had_history_of_domestic_violence.html?c=y&page=1
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