Authorities haven’t released a possible motive for the weekend attack on Garnet Lane Sunday night.
The children’s mother returned home to find the bodies of the children, all of whom were under the age of 12, and their grandmother and called 911, authorities said.
Grace Beltran, who lives three houses away, said a woman ran back and forth in their front yard, screaming, “My babies are gone! They’re all dead!”
Germarcus David, 29, turned himself in to Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies within minutes of his wife’s arrival at home. He remained jailed on $2 million bail on Tuesday.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
The victims were shot in the upper torso and died at the scene. The grandmother was in her 50s and was at the home babysitting, authorities said.
Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Dean said he wasn’t aware of any previous reports of domestic violence at the home.
David was a licensed security guard and held a permit to carry a gun but it expired in August 2020 and was listed as canceled, according to records from the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, which regulates the private security industry.
What appeared to be David’s Facebook page includes a photograph of a crucifix and posts from late October and earlier this month offering spiritual and moral views.
“Just know that God loves you when you feel unloved for,” David said in a Nov. 16 post.
“The love I give will overflow from one heart to the next as a gift that keeps giving. I will be one of the reasons that others believe in the true goodness of this world,” David posted on Oct. 27, adding: “THAT is what I want my legacy to be. THAT is what I want my children to grow up seeing.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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