Preliminary indications are that all three suffered gunshot wounds.
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“Santa Barbara County Sheriff said that the crime was “diabolical, premeditated” and one of the most odious that I have ever been involved with”.
Police showed up at the Santa Barbara home of Dr. Weidong “Henry” Han on Wednesday to perform a welfare check.
Pierre Haobsh, 27, is seen in a booking photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office on March 25, 2016.
Investigators recovered a loaded 9mm handgun, as well as property belonging to one of the victims, in Haobsh’s vehicle, the Times reported.
A suspect is in custody in the deaths of a Southern California doctor, his wife and their 5-year-old daughter. ‘They had been duct-taped over the plastic wrap and they were all in the garage of the residence’.
The front door was ajar and they could see the family cars parked in the garage.
Investigators are still trying to figure out the motive behind the murders, but believe Haobsh was recently involved in a business deal with Han and financial gain could have been involved.
“This investigation is far from over”, Brown said.
A welfare check was called on the family after two of Han’s business associates went to his home after he failed to show up to a meeting, which they said was highly uncharacteristic of him.
The investigation is ongoing, and authorities have provided little information about what might have led to the killings.
The suspect, identified by police as Pierre Haobsh, was arrested just after midnight in San Diego County – about 200 miles south of where the family’s bodies were discovered on Wednesday. No relatives, friends or an attorney who could comment were found in an initial search by The Associated Press. “He co-authored several books on the integration of the two medical techniques and he owned and ran the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic since 1991”.
The couple’s daughter was a kindergartener at Foothill Elementary School in the Goleta Unified School District, where counselors were made available to her classmates and their parents.
“Yesterday our community was confronted by the tragic loss of lives due to violence”, said Superintendent William Banning. “A graduate of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, he practiced here for years treating very hard and complicated illnesses, especially cancer”.
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Han provided traditional treatments including acupuncture, acupressure and herbal formulas from an on-site Chinese pharmacy, according to the website.
