Leeds Morelli & Brown,LLP::Divorce Legal Post

CNN reports that Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, the man who dressed up as Santa Claus and went on a shooting rampage in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina on Christmas Eve targeting his ex-wife and her family may have also had plans to kill his own mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney, according to the Covina Police Department.  Pardo committed suicide just hours after he embarked on a shooting escapade at the home of his ex-wife, Sylvia Ortega Pardo, killing nine people on Christmas Eve and setting a raging fire to his ex-wife’s home.  Pardo had also left a rental car with a gasoline canister outside the home of Scott Nord, his ex-wife’s divorce attorney.
A divorce between Pardo and Sylvia Ortega Pardo had been finalized in court on December 18, a mere six days before the murders.  Covina Police Chief Kim Raney described the divorce as a “somewhat contentious proceeding,” according to CNN.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/30/santa.shooting/index.html

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