{"id":139253,"date":"2026-01-18T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:44:06","slug":"man-killed-wife-daughter-then-himself-in-lakewood-shooting-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139253\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed wife, daughter, then himself in Lakewood shooting, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More details have emerged in a shooting that left three dead<\/a> inside a Lakewood home on Thursday, with authorities saying a man allegedly killed his wife and youngest daughter before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n

Deputies responded to the 5800 block of Lorelei Avenue around 8 a.m. Thursday, after receiving a call reporting an assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. The caller said her father had shot at her and was lying near her on the floor unconscious.<\/p>\n

When deputies arrived, they spoke with the 19-year-old woman, who told authorities that her father had shot at her. The woman, who was unharmed, was then taken to the Lakewood sheriff\u2019s station.<\/p>\n

After deputies entered the home, they found a man lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. Authorities identified him as Hector Lionel Alfaro, 52.<\/p>\n

Soon afterward, deputies located a 48-year-old woman, later identified as Alfaro\u2019s wife, in a bedroom with gunshot wounds to her torso. In another bedroom, they found a 17-year-old girl, Alfaro\u2019s youngest daughter, with a gunshot wound to her upper torso.<\/p>\n

Alfaro, his wife and youngest daughter were pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have not given a motive for the crime.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old woman, identified by authorities as Alfaro\u2019s eldest daughter, told investigators she woke up to the sound of gunshots. She said her father then appeared near her armed with a handgun and shot at her several times, but did not strike her. <\/p>\n

Alfaro then shot himself while standing near his eldest daughter, according to the sheriff\u2019s department.<\/p>\n

In a press conference after the shooting, Lt. Daniel Vizcarra, of the L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Homicide Bureau, said the 19-year-old was \u201cextremely distraught\u201d as she ran out of the house.<\/p>\n

In a statement to CBS LA<\/a>, Alfaro\u2019s eldest daughter called her mother \u201cthe most incredible woman I know.\u201d The young woman told the outlet that her mother and two sisters were \u201cmy entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two firearms were found at the scene and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More details have emerged in a shooting that left three dead inside a Lakewood home on Thursday, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[70501,6577,9342,6246,167,6314,8914,70504,69754,131,133,132,1555,6316,70503,4609,1557,70502],"class_list":{"0":"post-139253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-alfaro","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-daughter","11":"tag-department","12":"tag-deputy","13":"tag-father","14":"tag-gunshot-wound","15":"tag-lakewood-sheriff","16":"tag-lakewood-shooting","17":"tag-long-beach","18":"tag-long-beach-headlines","19":"tag-long-beach-news","20":"tag-man","21":"tag-mother","22":"tag-upper-torso","23":"tag-wife","24":"tag-woman","25":"tag-young-daughter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}