Mission Viejo bodies: Son killed family, then self

Thursday, May 29, 2014
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) -- Police believe a 21-year-old man killed his father, mother and sister with a shotgun in their Mission Viejo home, and then killed himself.

The victims were identified as 55-year-old Mark Harrison Sheer, 54-year-old Lydia Ann Sheer and 15-year-old Amy Joanne Sheer. The suspect was identified as Michael Harrison Davis Sheer.

On Monday, authorities responded to Pacific Hills Drive after reports of possible gun shots and a man yelling in the area. Deputies patrolled the area but were unable to locate anything.

Then on Tuesday, a relative located the bodies at a home in the 25600 block of Pacific Hills Drive.

A motive for the murder-suicide has not been determined yet.



A family friend told ABC7 that the husband is a business consultant and that the wife is a stay-at-home mother.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Orange County Sheriff's Department Homicide Unit at (714) 647-7055.

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