4-Year-Old Girl's Tip Leads Police To Parents' Murder-Suicide

TULARE, Calif. (AP) - Police in Central California say a tip from a 4-year-old girl led to the discovery of her parents who were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide.

Tulare police Sgt. Andy Garcia said someone called 911 just after midnight Sunday to report the child had told them her parents had been shot.

When officers went to her home, they found the front door open and the bodies of 41-year-old Georgina Rojas-Medina and 44-year-old Gerardo Tovar.

Investigators determined that Tovar shot Rojas-Medina in the head before turning the gun on himself.

Garcia said the two had been together for 13 years as common-law husband and wife.

The girl and two other siblings, 10 and 12, were not hurt in the shooting. They were placed in child custody.