“I CANNOT GO ON ANY LONGER”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AUTHORITIES CLAIM A 29-YEAR-OLD NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN SHOT HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER INSIDE THEIR SHARED HOME BEFORE DYING BY SUICIDE… LEAVING ALL THREE FAMILY MEMBERS DEAD WEEKS AFTER THE ATTACK.
Authorities claim the killings took place on August 11 at around 1 a.m. in Whitefield, New Hampshire.
The shooting occurred inside a shared residence at the Hilltop Manor Trailer Park.
At the time, a man shot two of his family members inside of their shared home.
Police later identified matriarch Amy Blake and her two sons, Michael Marro and Eric Blake Jr., as the victims after all three were found wounded by apparent gunfire.
Eric Blake Jr. was 29 years old and went by his middle name of Nicholas.
Amy Blake was 59 years old, and Michael Marro was 41 years old.
Both Amy and Marro were found alive in critical condition following the attack.
But both died within weeks of the shooting.
An autopsy was subsequently performed on 29-year-old Nicholas.
Following the autopsy, it was determined that he shot Amy and Marro before he died by suicide.
Police have not yet revealed a potential motive for the murder-suicide.
After all three family members died, a relative opened up about the tragedy while speaking to News 9.
The loved one asked to remain anonymous.
She shared insight into who the killer and the victims were as people.
“It’s too sad. They’re so young and they have their whole life ahead of them,” the family member said of the victims weeks after their deaths.
The relative said those involved in the murder-suicide “were just like any other family.”
She added that “they were all happy.”
Yet the family member shared that Nick had been struggling with mental illness prior to the killings.
“Mental illness took Nicholas too young, and he struggled for a long time,” she continued.
“If he could have just got some help.”
“We may not have to talk about this situation.”
“You know, no one would ever have thought that things had been so bad that this could have happened.”
The family member went on to say that she didn’t want Amy, Marro and Nick to be defined by the tragedy.
She instead said that she will choose to remember them as “full of life.”
She also chose to remember them as a “typical family.”
“They were just such a great family.”
“They grew up in Whitefield, and their house was the house where all the kids hung out,” she told the outlet.
And she added that the person who killed her loved ones “was not Nick.”
She continued that the Nick she knew was a “great kid, friendly, handsome [and] just fun to be around.”
“Both he and his brother both really enjoyed being in the restaurant business and in the kitchen,” she shared.
“They both loved to cook.”
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