UPDATE: District Attorney Rachael Rollins said that the evidence is pointing to a double-murder suicide in which the mother, Erin Pascal, likely killed her children and then took her own life, according to WCVB.
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A mother of two appeared to take her own life on Christmas Day moments after her children fell to their deaths from the top of a parking garage.
Police say that the two children, aged 4 years old and 15 months old, fell to their deaths at the Renaissance Park garage on the campus of Northeastern University in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The mother, 40, jumped to her death shortly thereafter.
“Our investigation is showing the two children fell first, and then the parent after,” Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins told WBUR radio’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes on Thursday, according to the Boston Globe.
First responders found the bodies around 1:30 p.m., and all three people were pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. Their names have not been released publicly yet.
“On any day, if it had happened, it would have been a tragedy,” Rollins added. “But it happened on Christmas Day, which, whether you celebrate that holiday or not, is a sacred season in many cultures. And to just see a family, when many of us were home I hope celebrating and loving ours, to just see that this family ended on that day, or the vast majority of them did.”
