Family Mourns SFPD Vet, Slain by Husband, and Their Daughter in Suspected Double Murder-Suicide – KQED

Family Mourns SFPD Vet, Slain by Husband, and Their Daughter in Suspected Double Murder-Suicide  KQED

Ann Mannix was described as a dedicated mother whose three children followed her around like “little ducklings.” A note, accompanying a bouquet of flowers on the front gate of a home on Strawberry Circle, thanks Ann Mannix for being a loving mother. More bouquets are on the ground, with a pair of tennis balls bearing messages in black ink. On Sunday evening, inside the brown, shingled home just east of Mill Valley, Mannix’s 68-year-old estranged husband — retired San Francisco Police Sgt. Kevin Mannix — shot and killed Ann, 65, and their 24-year-old daughter, Katie, before turning the gun on himself. Another one of their children escaped the home alive. Mannix, a retired SFPD deputy chief herself, is being remembered for her longtime service to SFPD, but also as a mother who cared deeply for her children and a sister who acted as a good role model.

Ann’s brother, Richard Corriea — also retired SFPD — said he had been helping Ann navigate the end of her marriage, during which she was mostly concerned about her three adult kids. “If her decision-making about protecting herself as her marriage was coming to an end, I think that it might have been protectiveness towards her children also, and wanting to keep their lives intact, so to speak,” Corriea told KQED in a