Steven Jones, a British ex-pat living in New York reportedly killed his American wife and 12-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself.

The 46-year-old British man had a day before the double murder-suicide incident, sent an email to a family friend of more than 40 years, Kenneth Petch, apologizing for creating 'such chaos'. He also asked for the email to be relayed to his parents, Roy and Rita.

It read: "Hi mum and dad, this is Steve. I do this to protect Emma. It's taken me 18 years, but I realise that I have wandered down the wrong path with the wrong person and that I have been manipulated for too long.

"I cannot bear the thought of this happening to a special 12-year-old, and if I don't intervene, she will be left to the wolves all alone.

"You were wonderful parents, none of this is your fault or could have been prevented. I'm sorry to produce such chaos, but hopefully, there are good memories too.

"I remember many happy times during our visits. You always made us feel welcome and loved. Please focus on the good times, there were truly many good times.

"I do this to protect Emma. Love Steve."

The electrical engineer was found dead a day after on December 14, 2018, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Steven's corpse was found, after New York Police officers carried out a welfare check at his family address in Ballston Spa, following his employers, GlobalFoundries' concern that he had not turned up for work. His wife, Jennifer, and their daughter Emma were both discovered dead in separate upstairs bedrooms, with multiple gunshot wounds.

Though Jones's parents told an inquest that their son was a "family man" and they were not aware of him going through any "financial, health or marital difficulties", investigators reached the conclusion that the 46-year-old man had murdered his family members before turning the gun on himself as there were no "suspicious circumstances" surrounding his death.

It was further learnt that parents of the deceased received a Christmas card, calendar and selection of five photos of Jones' family looking happy together, a few days after news of the deaths was broken to them. The items were post stamped December 12.

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Na weyrey be this man o,anyway RIP

Eyah

Inside dis life sef!

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Inside dis life sef!

1st to wake up on nairaland. Oga na 24hrs u dey spend on nairaland? Your last post na 2.18am in d morning and your 1st post na 4 08am. Haba

Serious... on God knows what Really went wrong .. but killing them and ur self ain't the solution.. but my mind dey tell me say na infidelity issue cause dis

Wondered what the family will be going through now.

Nawa oh

EkperemoEgbabi:


1st to wake up on nairaland. Oga na 24hrs u dey spend on nairaland? Your last post na 2.18am in d morning and your 1st post na 4 08am. Haba

how her sleep dey take affect ur life. u wan sleep wit am?
monitoring spirits everywhere.
see as him head b.
Nairaland time keeper.u neva get work.
Take am----

I like your pictures. i like your cheer up for Christmas. How to decorate Christmas tre

He bottled up so many things. Pls if you're going through anything find someone reliable and share with the person cos a problem shared is half solved

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