PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a man who shot and killed his girlfriend in their Palm Springs gated-community home before killing himself also fatally shot her 13-year-old daughter.
Riverside County coroner’s officials said Monday that the second victim of 47-year-old Delmar Davis was Melissa Herrold.
Palm Springs Unified School District spokeswoman Joan Boiko tells the Desert Sun (https://mydesert.co/1ixiotC) Melissa was a stellar seventh-grade student and show-choir singer at Raymond Cree Middle School.
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Police had not previously released the age or identity of the second victim.
Police say Davis, who had once worked at a Palm Desert gun store, shot and killed 43-year-old girlfriend Cynthia Herrold and the girl Thursday before turning the gun on himself.
Investigators searching the home found a large cache of firearms and what they would only call destructive devices.
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Information from: The Desert Sun, https://www.mydesert.com/
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