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The couple s three children ages 4, 8 and 11 were found hiding in a bedroom. According to Sgt. Donald Prichard, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office, a SWAT team helped the children escape the home through a bedroom window. They were unharmed.
After the children were medically examined, they met with victim advocates and treatment specialists. They remain in state custody until further notice.
News of the violence has shocked those close to the family. In an interview with WSVN-TV, family friend Jimmy Chrisphonte expressed disbelief that Clody Sylverne would do anything violent to his family. He was my best friend, Chrisphonte tells the station. This is very hard.
Pictured Florida gunman and his wife, Benouchka Sylverne. Images via Facebook.
Clody Sylverne Tamarac murder suicide: Florida man kills wife, mother in law, 3 children saved as authorities seeking shooting motive.
A suspected
murder-suicide has left three adults dead and three children without parents after a Saturday morning shooting at a home in
Tamarac,
Broward County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a home on the 9700 block Northwest 83rd Street at 7:14 a.m. Tamarac, just outside of
Miami after reports of a shooting. SWAT team members entered the home and found a man and a woman dead inside. Investigators say another woman was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where she later died.
SWAT team rescues three young children from bedroom window after their father shoots dead their mom and his mother-in-law in Florida murder-suicide
Sheriff s deputies rescued three children, aged 4, 8, and 11, from a bedroom window at a home in Tamarac, outside Miami, on Saturday
The bodies of their mom, 38, and grandmother, 65, were found inside
Father Clody Sylverne, 39, a mechanic, is believed to have murdered the two women before turning the gun on himself
Sylverne’s friend Jimmy Christophonte named the wife as Benouchka, 38, in an interview with Local10
Police received a 911 call about a shooting around 7:15am
Investigators are still searching for a motive for the killings