Hispanic husband shoots entire family, killing four children, after his wife returns from an abused women's shelter before turning the gun on himself

Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women's shelter. She saw it as the beginning of a new life: one without her husband and the father of her four children, as she told co-workers. She wasn't going back to him this time, she said, and left for home. Less than an hour later, her 24-year-old husband, Jose Avila, launched a brutal final assault, shooting his wife three times before he began shooting the children. Avila's final act was to kill himself. Two of the children died at a hospital, a day after their two siblings were killed in the shooting that rattled the small southeast Texas town of Bay City.
Their mother is hospitalized in critical condition.