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The deaths of 3 radical recovered Friday successful a burning location successful Riverside are thought to beryllium connected to the attempted abduction of a teenage girl.
As constabulary were en way to the 11200 artifact of Price Court for a payment cheque connected a antheral and a young pistillate who were having “some benignant of disturbance” extracurricular a residence, dispatchers received calls from motorists of fume pouring from a location successful the aforesaid block, said Officer Ryan Railsback, a spokesperson for the Riverside Police Department.
Firefighters responded and were extinguishing the occurrence erstwhile they discovered the bodies of a antheral and 2 women wrong the house, Railsback said. The victims were identified arsenic Mark Winek, 69; his wife, Sharie Winek, 65; and their daughter, Brooke Winek, 38.
Investigators person determined that the pistillate progressive successful the outdoor disturbance was a teen who lived successful the house, Railsback said. The antheral she was with — Austin Lee Edwards, 28, of North Chesterfield, Va. — was identified arsenic the main fishy successful the 3 deaths, helium said. Edwards was tracked Friday evening to San Bernardino County, wherever helium was fatally changeable by sheriff’s deputies successful Kelso aft firing a weapon astatine officers, instrumentality enforcement officials said.
Riverside constabulary detectives determined that Edwards had met the teenage miss online and misrepresented who helium was, Railsback said.
“Detectives determined Edwards had met the pistillate teen done the communal signifier of online deception known arsenic ‘catfishing,’ wherever idiosyncratic pretends to beryllium a antithetic idiosyncratic than they really are,” authorities said successful the release. “It is believed Edwards had developed an online narration with the teen and obtained her idiosyncratic information. He traveled from Virginia to Riverside wherever helium parked his car successful a neighbor’s driveway and walked into the teen’s home.”
Homicide victims from left, Sharie Winek, Mark Winek, and their girl 38-year-old Brooke Winek.
(Riverside Police Dept.)
Austin Lee Edwards of North Chesterfield, Va.
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The nonstop origin and mode of the 3 deaths are nether investigation, but constabulary judge Edwards killed the teen’s grandfather, grandma and parent earlier taking the teen to his conveyance and driving away, according to officials.
The teen was not harmed.
Edwards was formerly employed by the Virginia State Police and much precocious worked for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office successful Virginia, Railsback said.
Friends and household of the 3 who died gathered implicit the play to retrieve their loved ones, according to the Press-Enterprise.
Ron Smith told the Press-Enterprise that Mark Winek was a adjacent friend, and his decease — on with his wife’s and daughter’s — came arsenic a shock. Smith said Winek was a beloved fig successful Inland Empire precocious schoolhouse sports, having coached shot for galore years astatine antithetic schools, including Corona and Arlington precocious schools.
“Mark was a antheral who was immense successful the softball and shot coaching ranks,” Smith said. “You can’t inquire for a amended person than Mark.”
Sheri Lazzarini, a person of Winek’s, told the Press-Enterprise that she met him erstwhile helium asked to articulation her softball coaching unit astatine La Sierra High School successful 1994, portion his daughters were attending the Riverside school. She said they remained adjacent successful the years since.
“He was a antheral dedicated to helping student-athletes,” Lazzarini said. “I don’t privation the bequest to beryllium what’s happened, due to the fact that helium was a truly peculiar man.”
A GoFundMe to enactment the family’s ceremonial costs called Winek “a loving father, grandfather, uncle, brother, and coach” and Sharie Winek “a saccharine and caring mother, grandmother, sister and aunt who cherished spending clip with her family.”
The leafage said Brooke Winek was “a beloved azygous parent with the biggest heart” who had 2 daughters.
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