UPDATE: Wilmington father's problems were not economic
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Ervin Lupoe you were a coward! You want to take your own life and go to hell, that is your business. Why would you take your wife and children with you?? All this for problems at work?I will pray for your wife and children to go to heaven, but you, you coward, you will go to hell!
Big Mo
East Side Torrance
It seems like this couple struggled to attain every small measure of success in their lives and got tired of struggling. I've been down that road and back, faced obstacles, corruption, people who got-off on seeing others hit bottom and did everything they could to keep them there.
It wouldn't occur to me though to bring anyone down with me, but I don't have a spouse or children and ultimately I'm not responsible for anyone other than myself. I can understand where Ervin is coming from though I would never choose his means. Like him, I too wouldn't want to consider myself or the children I brought into this world a burden to its very existence. I'm not a stranger to how foster parents abuse and neglect the children in their or the seemingly dead-end road life can be for children with poor parents or no parents at all.
Ervin was struggling with some heavy issues and it's disheartening that this is the result he chose. I don't wish any more pain on him or his family. I hope that, wherever they may be, they have finally found peace.
The truth is they were both involved in welfare fraud and had been for quite a few years. They got caught forging the signature of a Kaiser Dept Admin/MD on a form used to verify their "low income status" and as a result were both fired.
hey larry:
why do you believe everything the police tell you? if you're getting fired at work, isn't that economic? DUH!
God Bless
Brutal and tragic. A Letter to the Editor today made the suicide/murder sound like a conspiracy perpetrated by investment bankers, but no one made this guy put a gun up to the head of a child.
I think the man had a lifestyle that was a house of cards - two new SUVs, a house mortgaged to the hilt, debt piling up, and finally fraud - this guy was the poster boy for irresponsible personal decisions. It didn't have to happen that way.
Like many people, rich and poor, he made bad bad BAD choices, and couldn't live with the fallout.
I just wish he didn't kill those babies. It gives me nightmares.
May the children, who were totally innocent, Rest In Eternal Peace.