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Man Murders Wife And Two Sons, Kills Self With Charcoal Grill In WalMart Parking Lot

January 18, 2011 at 3:52 am by Jaded

Novi, MI – Police were called to the home Mark Schons shares with his wife and two children Friday afternoon after the boys, Camden, 4, and Tynan, 6, failed to show up for school, and his wife Jennifer, 38, missed an appointment with friends.

When officers arrived, Jennifer and the boys were found dead in separate rooms of the home. Jennifer had apparently been stabbed to death, and Camden and Tynan died of asphyxiation due to compression — Camden with smothering as a secondary cause of death. Hours later, 39-year-old Mark was found dead inside his vehicle in a WalMart parking lot a few miles from his home – police say the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

“He apparently purchased the grill somewhere, placed it on the passenger seat next to him, and just went to sleep,” Novi Police Chief David Molloy said. “It (grill) was still warm when his body was found.” Molloy also said a knife found inside the vehicle is believed to be the weapon used to kill Jennifer Schons, and is still undergoing testing.

At this point, the motive is unknown and no suicide note has been found, but police say the Schonses were deep in debt. They had filed for bankruptcy in December and were considering a divorce, but continued to live together in their home. They were also dealing with the failure of a party supply business they had operated.

Tags: Asphyxiation, carbon monoxide poisoning, Murder-suicide, Smothering, Stabbing

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Anonymous

If someone is truly miserable, he/she should skip the murder and jump to the suicide. I just don’t get the killing the spouse and kids thing (or anyone thing). Just fucked up.
http://www.myspace.com/__Domino__ Domino

oh did he? just went to sleep, huh?

hope his soul never rests! he could have at least given his kids the same decency.
Anonymous

Ok, so you’ve decided that your family is an extension of yourself or is your property that no one can have, great! Now for killing them how about trying FOR THE SAME DEATH AS YOU & not a painful one. Say you’re going to suffocate yourself by carbon monoxide… let them die while sleeping too, not by fighting you off & have you win any way.

Selfish prick.
Bulletproof

So he stabbed his wife, and choked his kids to death, yet chooses a painless, pussified death for himself. I hope death brings him nothing but pain and fear, just as he brought his wife and kids in their last moments. RIP Jennifer, Camden and Tynan…
Anonymous

What is it with Hibachi grills this week? Seriously, is that the new thing, or am I late on a trend?

Also: what everyone else said. What a d-bag. Horrifically murder your family, then coward your way off the planet to the sweet smell of a charcoal grill and a nap? Dick. Can’t they mutilate him a little bit just for justice’ sake?
Anonymous

I will never understand what it is about debt that causes people to kill themselves and their families – I grew up dirt poor and have had plenty of financial highs and lows in my adult life – but I have never had anything that ever led me to believe that all hope was lost. Not even when I was homeless with my children years ago . . . I can’t imagine this extreme on any level. . . poor babies – may they rest in peace
Anonymous

Great. Another one of these shitheads.

Just fucking kill yourself. The wife and kids will find a way to get by without you.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWBV2FUY3OBYX3RNK6I44QSC7I Kwum

pathetic fat load…this nasty slob inflicted all the pain on his wife n kids and just nodded off into twinkie heaven for himself. ugh
wishfulsinful

He’s soooo not going to twinkie heaven, but I’m with you on everything else.
Anonymous

he should’ve fucking stabbed himself to death, fucking coward saved the easiest way to go for himself.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Based on the title alone, I was hoping for a more creative method of suicide with the charcoal grill.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Based on the title alone, I was hoping for a more creative method of suicide with the charcoal grill.
KB

He goes to sleep and is killed by breathing in carbon monoxide….he kills his family in horrific painful ways?!! Asshole piece of garbage through and through. Im not saying he should have killed them this way or that way…because he had no right to decide to kill his wife and children…but Im just annoyed that his method of suicide was much less painful then smothering his 2 children to death and stabbing their mother to death.
Anonymous

jAH THIS GUY USED TO WORK AT THE WALMART I WORK AT WE ARE STILL REELING FROM THIS HE WAS I HEAR DEALING WITH MASSIVE DEPRESSION, PENDING DEVORCE AND LOSING THEIR HOME DUE TO FORCLOSER. OUR HEARTS STILL GO OUT TO JENNIFER AND HER KIDS.
Anonymous

jAH THIS GUY USED TO WORK AT THE WALMART I WORK AT WE ARE STILL REELING FROM THIS HE WAS I HEAR DEALING WITH MASSIVE DEPRESSION, PENDING DEVORCE AND LOSING THEIR HOME DUE TO FORCLOSER. OUR HEARTS STILL GO OUT TO JENNIFER AND HER KIDS.