Unemployed California Dad Who Killed Family, Himself Said Hospital Incited Tragedy

An unemployed Los Angeles father said in a suicide note that he methodically shot and killed his family before turning the gun on himself because he and his wife were fired by the hospital where they worked after being told "you should have blown your brains out."
But the hospital said it was "confident" that none of its employees told Ervin Lupoe to take his own life or kill his family.
Police are investigating after finding a horrific scene at the Lupoes' home in Wilmington, Calif., on Tuesday morning.
In one upstairs bedroom, the bodies of twin 2-year-old boys were found beside their dead mother. In another bedroom, 5-year-old twin girls and their 8-year-old sister lay next to their lifeless father.

Lupoe and his wife had both recently been fired from their jobs at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center.
His letter, faxed to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, indicated that Lupoe and his wife — both 40 — had been investigated for misrepresenting their employment to an outside agency to obtain child care, and claimed that an administrator told the couple on Dec. 23: "You should not even had bothered to come to work today. You should have blown your brains out."
The letter said the couple complained to the hospital's human resources department and eventually were offered an apology, but two days later they were fired.
"They did nothing to the manager who stated such and did not attempt to assist us in the matter, knowing we have no job and five children under 8 years with no place to go. So here we are," the note said.
In a statement, the hospital said they were "saddened by the despair in Mr. Lupoe's letter faxed to the media, but we are confident that no one told him to take his own life or the lives of his family."
When asked what the couple was offered an apology for and whether an administrator said what Lupoe alleged, hospital spokesman Anthony Crump told FOXNews.com he could not comment on employee matters.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it's unlikely the medical center would be held legally responsible for telling Lupoe to blow his brains out.
"I don't know how someone's statement could be prosecuted," LAPD Officer Sam Park told FOXNews.com. "It's just like if I told you to go jump off a cliff. I don't think it could be prosecuted legally." more