19 year old girl in Brazil, shot three times and left dying under the Christmas tree. Ostensibly, the assailant was fulfilling some sort of generational family grudge. This girl's grandmother murdered his aunt 10 years ago. Or something to that effect.
Either way, here she is, dead and lying in a pool of her own blood and pee amidst the holiday cheer.
Just happened yesterday in Mexico, this 30 year old mother killed herself and her three daughters, aged 11, 9, and 6. She left a rambling note of explanation that largely had to do with the girls not growing up in poverty and her husband leaving her for a younger woman.
Her method of suicide/murder was to feed all three girls (and herself) lethal doses of pesticide. This is a not-uncommon method for very poor people to use, since it is very cheap and easy to obtain. Nonetheless, it is a pretty horrible way to die. Most of the time it is wrenchingly painful. It isn't a particularly quick death and is usually accompanied by deep spasms, wracking pain, vomit, foaming, urination, and defecation as your body makes a last ditch effort to purge itself of the toxins before you succumb.
