16-year-old ava wood was killed by her father in an apparent murder-suicide, police say, according to multiple reports.
Police say Christopher Wood, 51, shot his daughter, Ava Wood, before turning the gun on himself inside their Baldwinsville, N.Y. home on Jan. 20, according to The Post-Standard.
Officers were called to the home at about 8:30 a.m. for a status check after the victim’s mom called 911 to report that her daughter did not make it to school, per the outlet. The mom told dispatchers that the girl was at home with her father, who, according to the mom, was depressed and had told the mom, “This is how it ends for us” the night before.
When police arrived, they used the house keys the mom had given them to enter the house, where they discovered the pair’s bodies with gunshot wounds in separate bedrooms, CNY Central reports. It appeared as though the father’s wound was self-inflicted, police told the outlet.
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According to the outlet, Christopher Wood was still married to the girl’s mother, but the couple was broken up and living apart. The teen had primarily been living with her dad, according to reports.