DAVIE, Fla. – A man fatally shot his 11-year-old, terminally ill daughter before killing himself in their South Florida home on Monday, police said.“It was a devastating terminal illness,” Davie police spokesman Lt.
Mark Leone told news outlets. “She was not going to get any better. ... It is such a tragic situation, a terrible situation.”The shooting happened Monday as the girl's mother was cooking, police said.Leone said the child was the couple's only child.
The mother found the daughter dead and the father was taken to a hospital, where he later died.“It is devastating,” Leone said of the father’s apparent murder-suicide.