A Colorado man killed his two young children and wife before killing himself in his El Paso County home over the weekend, police said Monday.
Gun shop owner kills his two children and wife before killing himself
Christof Kreb, fifty-five, owned a gun store in Colorado Springs, according to business records from the Colorado secretary of state’s office.
Deputies were called to Kreb’s Pleier Drive home Saturday morning because of a report of “someone at the scene who was seriously injured and needed help,” Lt. Deborah Mynatt of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
When they arrived, all four family members were found dead. The victims were identified as Yvette M Siegert-Kreb, fifty, who had been married to Kreb for twenty-six years, and their two children, ages thirteen and nine.
Large police response
The call prompted a large police response, with additional tactical support units arriving on the scene. A “reverse 911” was sent to families within a two-mile radius, asking them to stay indoors and keep doors and windows locked.
“The El Paso County Coroner’s Office will release the cause and manner of death for everyone once they make a decision,” the statement stipulates.
Both the husband and wife were veterans of the U.S. Army. Yvette Kreb was a retired neonatal intensive care unit nurse, stated family representative Laura Muir Mellini. She had been making mouth covers for the community since the start of the covirus 19 pandemic.
“She was a tireless advocate for abused and neglected children,” Muir Mellini added to the Denver Post.
According to Muir Mellini, the thirteen-year-old girl was adopted from China, while her nine-year-old brother was adopted from Albania.
The family had reportedly adopted six children, most of whom suffered from dwarfism, over the past decade.
