Three Strawberry residents dead in suspected murder-suicide – Marin Independent Journal

Three Strawberry residents dead in suspected murder-suicide  Marin Independent Journal

The deaths included two retired members of the San Francisco Police Department and their adult daughter, a College of Marin student. A retired San Francisco police sergeant shot his wife and daughter to death at their home in Strawberry before fatally shooting himself, authorities said Monday. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office identified them as Kevin Mannix, 68, Ann Elizabeth Corriea Mannix, 65, and Katherine Elizabeth Mannix, 24. Ann Mannix is a retired deputy chief for the San Francisco Police Department. A caller notified authorities about the shooting at a home on Strawberry Circle at about 5 p.m. Sunday. Deputies contacted the caller there and entered the home, sheriff’s spokesperson Miguel Almaguer said. The sheriff’s office did not disclose the caller’s relation to the Mannixes but said the caller lived at the residence.

The caller was not injured, Almaguer said. “The preliminary investigation indicates a suspected double-murder suicide involving three individuals,” the sheriff’s office said. Ann Mannix worked at the San Francisco Police Department for 27 years and she led a team that includes SWAT officers and the bomb squad. She was also involved with the San Francisco Police Activities League, which she learned about when she was growing up in the city’s Jordan Park neighborhood. “I value the ability to be involved and shape a young person’s life, to be