Josh Powell, tragic murder-suicide takes lives of two kids VIDEO
“I’m Sorry Goodbye”
Last words from Josh Powell as the case of missing Utah mother Susan Powell took a horrific turn Sunday in Washington State.
Officials say her husband, who was a person of interest in that case, killed their two children and himself.
The scene shows Josh Powell’s home engulfed in flames as an explosion kills Josh Powell and the two children.
“I just heard a huge explosion,” neighbor Ryan Mickle says. “It shook my house and then I ran outside and the whole house was on fire almost immediately.”
Kirk Graves of West Jordan, Utah reacts to the death of his brother-in-law Josh Powell and his two nephews, Charlie and Braden, who died in an explosion on Sunday in Washington.
The Seattle Times has a great report on the incident:
“The fire burned hot and it burned fast,” said Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ed Troyer, who described the fire as an intentional act that came shortly after Powell sent an email to his attorney apologizing and saying goodbye.
Three bodies, believed to be those of Powell and his sons, Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, were found in the same room in the house, authorities said.
Troyer called the deaths “a double murder-suicide.”
“What happened here … was an act of evil. Do not call it a tragedy because that sanitizes it. This was a terrible act of murder involving two young children,” Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said near the house.
Powell, 36, had lost custody of the boys after his father was arrested last year for allegedly possessing child pornography in another house they previously shared. The boys were in the custody of Susan Powell’s parents; however, Josh Powell was allowed supervised visitation.
About noon Sunday, Troyer said, the caseworker, a state contract worker from Foster Care Resource Network, brought the boys for a scheduled visit to Powell’s house. The caseworker was assigned to the children and had previously brought them to their father without incident, Troyer said.
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