Four NJ family members dead in murder-suicide in Union County

Four members of a Union County, N.J., family were killed in what police said Thursday was a murder-suicide.

The bodies of Ruben Alarcon, 51, his wife Andrea Alarcon, 42, and their two children were discovered in their Lincrest Terrace home Wednesday morning, all gunshot victims, officials said.

An investigation determined Andrea Alarcon fatally shot her husband and their two daughters before turning the weapon on herself. The murder weapon was discovered near her body when county Sheriff’s Department personnel arrived, the Union County Prosector’s Office said in a statement.

“In tragedies of this magnitude, there are no words that can heal, nor explanations that can serve to make sense of them to the public,” Prosecutor William Daniel said. “Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of these victims and to the Union community as a whole in the wake of this horrible event.”