Robstown Nursing Home: 5 deaths in a possible murder-suicide in a nursing home, residence in Corpus Christi, Texas

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Police were trying to determine a motive Saturday after a man shot and killed four family members in two locations, including his father and stepmother in a retirement home from Robstown to Texas before killing himself Richard Starry mortally wounded himself inside Retama Manor's home after killing Ernest Starry, 85, and his wife, Thelma Montalvo, on Friday night, said Lieutenant Enrique Paredez of the Robstown Police Department

. The MP then called agents to the couple's home, where their 13-year-old adopted son and a 41-year-old son of Montalvo were also found dead. The names of the other two sons and the age of Montalvo were not disclosed.

The reason behind the shootings was not clear, said Paredez at a press conference Saturday. A firearm was recovered at the scene.

"Regarding a motive, the investigation is too premature to determine," Paredez said.

Reuben Garcia, whose father lives in the retirement home, was inside.

"I thought it was just a ladder that had fallen, that's how I felt, then I heard someone say run, run," he said. declared Garcia. "We ran," take his father out of the building.

Robstown Police Chief Erasmo Flores said at the press conference that the investigators were working "diligently" on the case and that the results would be presented to the prosecutor. .