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Couple Killed In Mt. Soledad Suspected Murder-Suicide Identified [UPDATE]
The husband and wife appeared to be killed by gunshots, police said. A pistol was found near the male.
LA JOLLA, CA – UPDATE: WEDNESDAY. MAY 17, 2:10 p.m.
Authorities released the names this afternoon of a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide in their upscale Mount Soledad-area home.
Officers responding to a report of an apparent homicide in the 5500 block of Avenida Fiesta in La Jolla on Tuesday evening found the bodies of Parvaneh Jilavi, 60, and her 80-year-old husband, John Mattiace, in separate rooms of their house.
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Both appeared to have been shot to death, and a pistol lay next to Mattiace's body, according to San Diego police.
Patrol personnel went to the home about 7:30 p.m., after a man made a 911 call to report that "his friend's father had just killed his mother" there, Lt. Todd Griffin said.
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Officers entered the residence and found Jilavi's body on a living-room sofa. They then retreated and called in a special weapons and tactics team to search the premises, Griffin said.
The SWAT personnel discovered Mattiace dead in a downstairs storage area. Both he and his wife appeared to have been shot in the upper body by the gun found alongside the husband's body, the lieutenant said.
Police were not looking for any outstanding suspects in the case, according to Griffin.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 8:06 a.m.
An investigation was underway Wednesday into a possible murder-suicide at a Mount Soledad-area home.
Officers conducting a welfare check on the residents of 5579 Avenida Fiesta around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday found an "obviously deceased woman" on a couch, San Diego police Lt. Todd Griffin told reporters at the scene.
The officers were told there were several firearms in the home, then retreated and summoned a SWAT team.
The SWAT team entered the home shortly after midnight and found a man dead, Griffin said.
The bodies were that of a married 60 year-old woman and an 80-year-old man who had died from gunshot wounds, Griffin said.
"We are viewing this as possibly a murder-suicide," Griffin told reporters. "We are not actively looking for a suspect right now."
The motive for the shooting was not immediately known, according to the lieutenant.
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--City News Service/Image via Renee Schiavone, Patch
