5 people were killed in an apparent murder-suicide in south Texas

Local news coverage of an apparent murder-suicide in Robstown, Texas
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Five people were found dead Friday night in what police believe to be a murder-suicide in Robstown, Texas, a small town near the state's southern coast.

Three of the people killed were discovered at a nursing home, and two were at the shooting suspect's house. The suspect was identified as Richard Starry, 60, and the victims named were his father, stepmother, the stepmother's son, and the couple's adopted son.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.