Today’s unfortunate headlines tell of a family tragedy in which a man took the lives his two children, his wife, his sister, and left one child in critical condition, before ending his own life as well. Jose Anibal Polanco gunned down his family members and then committed suicide in the doorway of his house in the Ivan Guzman section of Santo Domingo. Polanco, a former employee of the Bohemia beer company who had been gainfully self-employed, was distraught over the death of another son in a traffic accident in Santo Domingo. No other comments were given by his neighbors beyond the fact that he was a quiet man who served as the vice-president of the local Neighborhood Watch Committee. The surviving son is listed in serious condition in the local hospital.