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By Matt Reed
Associated Press
POSTED: 02:00 p.m. EST, Jan 29, 2009
WHITEHALL, OHIO: A man who police say shot and killed his wife and their two children in a murder-suicide had been out of work but recently got his old job back.
Mark Meeks, 51, was a service adviser with a car dealership, the Columbus Dispatch reported today.
He had been laid off while the business tried to adjust to a tough economy but had been back on the job for three weeks, Gary Kennedy, service director at Immke Northwest Honda in Dublin, told the newspaper.
Police said have not commented on a motive for the shootings and have declined to say if Meeks' employment history might have been a factor.
''We are all just as shell-shocked and saddened as can be,'' Kennedy told the Dispatch. ''He was just a great guy and seemed glad to be back.''
Police on Wednesday found Meeks' body and those of his family members in their home in Whitehall, a Columbus suburb. It appears to be a murder-suicide and that the father was the gunman, Sgt. Daniel Kelso said.
A suicide note was found at the scene, but Kelso declined to discuss its contents. A gun also was found in the home, he said.
Autopsies were being performed today. Police identified the other family members Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40; and their children, Abbigail, 8, and Jimmy, 5.
All family members had gunshot wounds, Kelso said.
The couple's children were home from school Wednesday because of a snow day.
A family member called police about 2 p.m. asking that authorities go to the home to check on the family's welfare, Kelso said. He declined to say why the relative made the request.
Yellow police tape remained around the family's red brick, ranch-style home today. Family friends stopped by the house and left stuffed animals and personal notes by a bush on the front lawn.
Denise Ford, 39, said she'd known the family for four years.
''I didn't know of any trouble,'' Ford said. ''They just seemed to be a good, normal family.''
WHITEHALL, OHIO: A man who police say shot and killed his wife and their two children in a murder-suicide had been out of work but recently got his old job back.
Mark Meeks, 51, was a service adviser with a car dealership, the Columbus Dispatch reported today.
He had been laid off while the business tried to adjust to a tough economy but had been back on the job for three weeks, Gary Kennedy, service director at Immke Northwest Honda in Dublin, told the newspaper.
Police said have not commented on a motive for the shootings and have declined to say if Meeks' employment history might have been a factor.
''We are all just as shell-shocked and saddened as can be,'' Kennedy told the Dispatch. ''He was just a great guy and seemed glad to be back.''
Police on Wednesday found Meeks' body and those of his family members in their home in Whitehall, a Columbus suburb. It appears to be a murder-suicide and that the father was the gunman, Sgt. Daniel Kelso said.
A suicide note was found at the scene, but Kelso declined to discuss its contents. A gun also was found in the home, he said.
Autopsies were being performed today. Police identified the other family members Jennifer Dallas-Meeks, 40; and their children, Abbigail, 8, and Jimmy, 5.
All family members had gunshot wounds, Kelso said.
The couple's children were home from school Wednesday because of a snow day.
A family member called police about 2 p.m. asking that authorities go to the home to check on the family's welfare, Kelso said. He declined to say why the relative made the request.
Yellow police tape remained around the family's red brick, ranch-style home today. Family friends stopped by the house and left stuffed animals and personal notes by a bush on the front lawn.
Denise Ford, 39, said she'd known the family for four years.
''I didn't know of any trouble,'' Ford said. ''They just seemed to be a good, normal family.''
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