HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP) -- Police say two children have been found shot to death in a car in Houston and their father was wounded in what police say was an apparent murder-attempted suicide.
Police spokesman John Cannon says police had been looking for the 8-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother after their mother called police saying that her estranged husband had just called threatening to kill the children.
Meanwhile, officers were called to the Inwood Gardens apartment complex in southwest Houston after a resident and a maintenance worker became concerned when they saw two children and a man in a car with its engine on.
He says all evidence indicates the suspect shot the kids while inside the car at the apartment complex parking lot and turned the gun on himself.
The 33-year-old man was transported in critical condition to Ben Taub General Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.
Cannon said the names of the children and how many times they were shot would be released by the Harris County medical examiner's office.
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