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Why? Illinois dad murders one year old son, six year old daughter, girlfriend then self.

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Jacquelon Gaskin and Brandyn Lee
Pictured, Joliet, Illinois parents, Jacquelon Gaskin and Brandyn Lee and the couple's two children who the father is accused of gunning down along with their mother and then self. Images via social media.
Jacquelon Gaskin and Brandyn Lee
Pictured, Joliet, Illinois parents, Jacquelon Gaskin and Brandyn Lee and the couple’s two children who the father is accused of gunning down along with their mother and then self. Images via social media.

Joliet, Illinois father, Brandyn Lee is alleged to have gunned down live in girlfriend, Jacquelon Gaskin in murder suicide along with the couple’s two children.

A father has allegedly shot his two young children and his girlfriend dead before killing himself in a suspected murder-suicide at their Illinois home.  

Brandyn Lee, 34, was found dead alongside Jacquelon Gaskin, 28, and the couple’s two children, daughter Gianna Lee, six, and one-year-old Giovanni, on the second floor of their house in Joliet according to WGN TV

Leading up to the murders, neighbors said they didn’t hear anything unusual- while noting the family kept to themselves, and were rarely seen outside the home.

It wasn’t until just after 10pm, Wednesday night that neighbors said they heard screams coming from the home chicago.cbslocal reported.

‘I just heard a loud scream. A scream that was terrifying. A scream that would bring you to your attention and come outside,’ according to Sarah Fox, a neighbor.

While investigators so far are only calling it a murder-suicide, relatives of Jacquelon Gaskin place the blame firmly on the father, Brandyn Lee, who family members say was a ‘controlling type of guy.’ 

It is thought Lee’s longtime girlfriend was getting ready to leave her boyfriend along with the couple’s two infant children.

‘I think she was outgrowing him. She had re-enrolled in school. She was trying to get her nursing degree finished,’ said Gaskin’s mother, Rusha Brooks. ‘I think he felt that he was losing her.’

She added: ‘My daughter’s children’s father shot everyone and killed them. He killed everybody.’

Brandyn Lee threatened after Jacquelon Gaskin planning to leave with children:

Boxes and packed items found in the living room suggested that Gaskin was planning on leaving Lee, which her family believe may have sent the man over the edge.

‘I never seen this coming,’ Terrance Brooks, Gaskin’s stepfather, told WGN. ‘I saw my daughter on Saturday. She was smiling. Same with my grandchildren. We did not expect this at all.’ 

A memorial of three crosses with the names of Jacquelon Gaskin, Gianna Lee and Giovanni Lee were placed on the front lawn of the home following the shooting. 

‘Innocent lives that didn’t do nothing, their innocent,’ Gwendolyn Brooks, a relative, said about the family’s loss. 

Police say that no one else is being sought in the deaths of the family, but that the investigation is currently ongoing. 

Autopsies have been scheduled for Friday.

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