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Man Dressed As Santa Claus Killed Six Relatives On ChristmasGRAPEVINE, TX – Police say a man was dressed as Santa Claus on Christmas when he shot and killed six relatives before turning the gun on himself.

Police were dispatched to the Lincoln Vineyard apartment complex after a call was made to 911 at around 11:30 a.m. Christmas day in which no one would respond to dispatchers.

When police and firefighters arrived at the apartment the call originated from, located at the back of the complex, they would find a massacre had taken place.

Inside the living room and kitchen area of the apartment police would find seven people, four women and three men aged 15 to 60, dead beside open gifts near a Christmas tree. Some were still sitting on furniture while others were on the floor.

“We think he was just inside there celebrating Christmas with the rest of them and decided for whatever reason that’s how he’s going to end things,” Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling told The Associated Press.

The identities of the victims have not been released yet, but all were related either by blood or marriage, according to Grapevine Police Lt. Todd Dearing. Neighbors said they believe the shooter was the father of at least two of the victims.  They say the family had moved into the apartment, but the father was still living in a foreclosed home two miles away.

The following video has a girl claiming to be a friend of one of the victims. She says her friend is Iranian and that the family were strict Muslims. She says her friend’s parents had separated recently and the mother had moved into the apartment with the couple’s two kids.

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  • Anonymous

    I considered doing this same thing last year when my hubby gave me a fucking steam cleaner for Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    Are steam cleaners bad?  I totally bought myself one for christmas, haha.  Although I might be a little more upset had someone else suggested I need it lol.

  • reapre

    What a shitty Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod. The story all by itself was bad enough. But he was dressed as Santa?! oh fuck.

    What a fucking assface. Why can they never kill JUST THEMSELVES?!

    But to kill your OWN KIDS ON CHRISTMAS WHILE DRESSED AS SANTA….

    Fuck fuck fuck. He’s lucky he actually succeeded in killing himself or I’d do it for him. SLOWLY.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704148477 Jennifer Boyer

    If they were strict Muslims, why on earth were they celebrating Christmas?

  • Anonymous

    This is probably in very bad taste, but fuck it. I’m gonna leave this here anyway…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGlUMvbhSw

  • Anonymous

    Good point! That hadn’t even crossed my mind. I was way out there in pissed-off-beyond-logical-thinking land.

  • Athena

    Precisely what I was thinking.  Of course, I don’t know any “strict” Muslims.  I just know the half-assed, Muslim-In-Name-Only types.  Just like the Catholics, Mormons, Lutherans and Buddists I know.  I think, if you’re going to pretend to practice a faith, you may as well make it an exotic one.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/HamsterNinjaofDOOM Alecia Hendricks

    Pastafarians unite!

  • Anonymous

    to iranians looking to explore western christmas traditions… please do not rely on the hopelessly flawed babelfish english-to-farsi translation of “twas the night before christmas.”  i can assure you that – in the google translate version – he doesn’t kill everyone before he leaves.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    We don’t know that they were. that’s just what a friend stated. For all we know “strict Muslims” to her means her friend couldn’t be outside after 11 p.m.

    Besides, maybe the mother didn’t want to be a strict Muslim and why she separated from the husband. Not really that much information out right now to speculate much aside from the fact that the man killed his family on Christmas dressed as Santa..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Staves/521875395 Andy Staves

    I read about this yesterday, and then again today it was updated with the Santa thing, he sure did come bearing gifts didn’t he? 
    I know they say that families fall out over Christmas, but surely this is taking things to the extreme? lol

  • Anonymous

    Okay.. scenerio time..  (warming, massive amounts of speculation ahead):

    Mom marries dad, and converts to islam.. Mom has kids..  mom decides muslim lifestyle isn’t for her (or her kids) and decides to go secular (the western traditions surrounding Christmas are mostly secular).. Dad is NOT pleased..  Mom moves out with kids..  Dad is PISSED..  Mom refuses contact with dad.. DAD LOSES F’N MIND and harkens back to cultural belief that women are to submit to their husbands .. or ELSE..  Dad pretends to accept lifestyle..  and goes one further to add insult to injury and dresses up like Santa..  Dad gets his revenge..  The End.. 

    Epilogue: Hopefully dad is rotting in Hell.. 

  • Anonymous

    That is viable.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I guess he kinda HAD to finish the job, cause once he killed one of them dressed as he was, NOBODY in the family would have believed in Santa anymore.  Well, maybe, Bad Santa.

  • Anonymous

    Hey @DreaminDemon:disqus did you hear this through the Grapevine?

    I know, I know; LAME as fuck. But someone had to say it.

  • Anonymous

    Either the girl is lying or there’s something wrong because isn’t Santa Claus the epithome of consumerism in the American culture that represents everything Muslims hate?

    Why would a Muslim dress up as Santa Claus? Then again it makes sense that “Santa” kills if you’re Muslim & you “celebrate” him.

    Fuck… what an asshole.

    My daughter didn’t even care for the presents (She’s 2) she was just crazy looking for where Santa went cause we tricked her by having her upstairs & jingling some bells downstairs where the chimney was.
    She was going to crawl into it if we hadn’t stopped her to catch Santa.

  • Anonymous

    I asked for a breadmaker, a food processor & a stand mixer.

    I got the 1st one… I wish I would’ve gotten the really good one though, not the crappy on sale one.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Hmmmm… anything is possible, I guess. However, this is a bedtime story I could have done without.

  • Anonymous

    Sad no matter what race and or religion they may have been.Human beings are getting more fucked up everyday.:(

  • Anonymous

    Morbid I did not think any stories were going to be posted today. You slipped this one in at the last minute. I heard this on the news. it’s not that far from me.Very sad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Richtofen/100002131970646 Edward Richtofen

    your oven is a bread maker. Should have pushed for the stand mixer

  • Thomas Thompson

    This happened a few years ago in California.

     http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6530779&page=1#.Tvl75WZ5FaU

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XA4RDSRSUX3XRSCPRR7XNGSPUQ Joshua

    and this merry Christmas is brought to you by the religion of peace…

  • Anonymous

    I never ask for appliances for that very reason. I don’t trust anyone to get me exactly what I want.

  • Anonymous

    That was a a fucked up and sad story.He was the nicest guy,Why is that always said about people like this?There had to be some red flags.This was over kill.

  • Anonymous

    Another case of you leave me i kill everyone

  • Anonymous

    I say if you want to kill yourself go for it…You don’t have to kill other people…

  • Anonymous

    regardless of what religion or race they are, this is already starting to sound like another domestic violence case,where if the abuse victim dares to leave her(and in some cases his) abuser,they respond by killing their abuse victim or their family as punishment.

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  • Anonymous

    Noooo. He could have either quit being a whiny little bitch and gone to a shrink and gotten the help he needed or … killed JUST himself.

    And he shoulda picked a day besides Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, other than the fact that it was dad who was dressed as Santa. And that there’s absolutely no indication that any of that happened, other than people’s tendency to view any man accused of being Muslim as a misogynistic fundamentalist.

    White Christians do this too, you know. Muslims do not have the corner on the “If I can’t have you, no one will!” market.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, JGo?!?

    Dude, NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE THE SAME. Plenty of them love American consumerism, a helluva lot more than I do.

  • Anonymous

    Do you see the link right above your comment where a Christian guy did the same thing?

  • Anonymous

    Sadly, that dynamic seems to be unfortunately common in all cultures. :-(

  • Anonymous

    The OVEN bakes the bread. It doesn’t heat the ingredients to the right temp, nor does it knead the dough that ends up as BREAD.

    So no, THE OVEN IS NOT A BREAD MAKER.

  • Anonymous

    I should’ve specified that I was talking about the extremist/ fundamentalist Muslims.

    I stand corrected.

  • Andrew Petrie

    According to local news (I live near Grapevine), they were Muslim, but celebrated Christmas as a cultural holiday.

  • Anonymous

    Some christian men DO in fact believe that their wives should submit to them..  I read an article on another site about disturbing books, and one of them was written by a group of good christian people who believed wives should be diciplined like children when they disobey their husbands (spanked primarily).. Many men (and women) have been convicted of murdering their children using the excuse that it was sactioned by God..  I wrote a disclaimer before I posted my version of events to ensure that people understood that it is just a story that fits the details made available in this article..  On a side note,  I’m not a fan of Islam.. Never will be, and no amount of PC bullying is going to change my mind about that.. If you feel it necessary to pin the badge of “Bigot” on me, then I will graciously accept it,  smile, and pat you on the head knowing I earned it by refusing to let someone else impose their brainwashed morality on me..  Oh, you can say the same for Christians huh? Go ahead ..  I’ll wear that badge too..  Kisses..  

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I got for Christmas. The one I wanted, too. <3

  • Anonymous

    My issue is that when a man who is Christian (and white) does something similar, people don’t tend to blame it on his religion. But whenever a Muslim man does it, people are quick to make baseless speculations that it was his religion that caused it.

    Honestly, I think white Christians (especially men) like trashing Islam’s treatment of women to make themselves feel better about how women in their own communities are treated. Women haven’t had the right to vote for a century in most of this country yet- in fact, less than a hundred years ago a quarter of the Senate voted to deny women in America the right to vote. The western world may be ahead of the Islamic world in their treatment of women, but not by that much, and mostly by accident. Back when the Koran was written, it was more liberal towards women than the western world was, but you wouldn’t know that, because you’ve only bothered to educate yourself on the smallest and most viscous corner of that religion.

    Your version of events does not actually fit the details available in this article, it just fits the details that you assume to be true of all Muslim men (they like to keep their women downtrodden). You make this assumption because it’s easy to make baseless assumptions about people who don’t look like you, talk like you, or pray like you, so that you can feel superior in comparison. Which is exactly what you do. That’s what makes you a bigot, not some ideal of ‘political correctness’.

    You wear that badge proudly. ‘Cause God knows what we need in this country is more bigotry…

  • http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    Wow. I live around a very large Muslim population and never knew one to do such a thing.

    You learn something new everyday!

  • Anonymous

    I’ll shine it every day chica :) ..  

    This is the last thing I’ll say on the matter..  You’ve taken a television detective show scenerio comment, and blown it way out of proportion..  It was never intended to be taken seriously, or as unquestionable truth.. I don’t base my opinion on Islam’s treatment of women on anything a “white christian man” has taught me.. I base it on my own observation, and opinions.. It’s true that at one time women in the United States of America were not allowed to vote (and I’m only using this as an example because it’s the one you used), but perhaps you could inform me of any public stonings that took place during the Women’s Suffrage Movement? None? Really.. Hmm..   Surely women are forced to walk the streets covered head to toe under threat of prosecution on mainstreet america.. They’re NOT? ..  Huh..  

    I don’t have any problem with people practicing the religion of their choice.. I have a problem with not being able to disagree with other people’s ideologies without being labeled a bigot.. Hey, you’re free to speak your mind in this country as long as you agree with everyone else.. right? ..  How about this,  if you find the idea that at any time your husband (according to the traditions of his faith, and his culture .. and there are NUMEROUS examples of this taking place, even today) could beat you to death with the blessing of his family and his government, you go right on ahead and jump on it..  Me? I think I’ll pass..  I don’t have hate for the Islamic community, but I will admit to a lack of trust.. 

    Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go put a burning cross on my neighbors lawn, and lynch some midgets..  Pffft.. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-House/1011555524 John House

    LOL wow.  How did we EVER make it to this point without breadmakers, rice cookers and ice cream makers?

  • Anonymous

    Like you I did not think that Muslims celebrated Christmas. I know very little about the Muslim faith but I believed Christmas to be a strictly Christian holiday. Kinda confusing,anybody know or have any facts on that?

  • Anonymous

     Even though you are speculating,that makes as much sense as any scenario I could think of. 

  • Anonymous

    LMAO

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  • Anonymous

    read the damn book.
    watch what they do.

    damn right I hate koranimals.  They want me dead, or wrapped in a horse blanket so yeah, call me a bigot.  What does their book of hate make them?

    Immigration for koranimals should have been closed forever on 9/12/01

    Take a trip to dearbornistan and start preaching about Jesus and see what happens.  Our very own no go area.