“IT WAS JUST A FAMILY GATHERING… HOW DID IT END LIKE THIS?” — NO ONE KNEW IT WOULD BE THE LAST TIME THEY SAW THE 10-YEAR-OLD TWINS SMILE What should have been an ordinary family gathering turned into a tragedy that has left an entire California community in shock. A father and his 10-year-old twin sons were found dead inside a Canoga Park home, leaving grieving relatives and countless unanswered questions behind.

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Harrowing pictures show a woman breaking down on the street outside the California home where a father is believed to have shot his twin sons dead in a triple murder-suicide.

The man and the 10-year-old boys died at the house in the 8016 block of Owensmouth Avenue in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Canoga Park.

A man in a baseball cap comforting a crying woman on the street at night.
Officers were called to the scene around 7:15 p.m. Sunday and found distraught relatives outside the property.abc7
A child with a bun sits in an ambulance, with an adult behind them.
Family members embrace in an ambulance at the scene of the tragedy.KNN

Officers were called to the scene around 7:15 p.m. Sunday and found distraught relatives outside the property.

Pictures showed a woman, who has not been identified, lying on the ground in a man’s arms covering her face as she cried following the family gathering.

“That’s just really sad. Two little kids and a dad. That’s a family. Nobody deserves that,” another woman at the scene told ABC7 Eyewitness News.

Entrance to the apartment where a father shot his two 10-year-old sons in Canoga Park, California.
The apartment where the shocking murder-suicide took placed is pictured on Monday.David Buchan for CA Post

She added: “I felt like, even though we might not see their family, we thought that they needed some prayer and some thought, because, like, I don’t know, I know me personally, whether I know them or not, I would want to pray for someone’s healing and just overall as a person, because that’s really sad and I don’t wish that upon anybody.”

Another local, named only as CC Pelkey, told KTLA: “My heart is breaking for this family because this is tragic. This should never happen to anybody.

“The kids never had a chance to have a life, and I don’t know why the father, if he did have issues, couldn’t have gotten help. Why? To take his children’s lives and his own life. It’s just, there are no words right now.”

Investigators spent hours processing the scene, carrying evidence from the home as they worked to reconstruct the moments leading up to the deaths.

Police and residents gather outside an apartment building, illuminated by red emergency lights, following a shooting.
The identities of the deceased gas not been released.KNN
Police officers on scene of a murder-suicide.
Cops have not released any more details or confirmed the circumstances leading up to the incident.abc7
Police and emergency vehicles with flashing lights at the scene of a shooting in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.
The house sits across from Lanark Park, in Canoga Park.KNN

The house sits across from Lanark Park, where a heavy police presence drew the attention of families and other parkgoers throughout the day.

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Reports said the incident may have occurred during a family gathering.

Throughout the day, loved ones and neighborhood residents stopped by, many hoping to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the deaths.