OMG Moment: Mother Killed Son With Hammer Before Slitting Own Throat

Ontario, CA – Days before being evicted from the shed they lived in, cops say a mother used a hammer to kill her 10-year-old son then killed herself by slitting her own throat.


The woman’s landlord said he heard screams coming from the 8-foot-by-12-foot shed he rented to the woman the night before, but did not call police. When he checked on the woman and her son the next day, he found their dead bodies and called police.

Police believe Libia Lopez, 41, first killed her son, Eddie Lopez, 10, by beating him to death with a hammer before trying to overdose on anti-depressant pills. She then took a quicker route by using a knife to slit her throat.

Neighbors say Lopez had just recently lost her job and was about to be evicted for not paying rent. But Sgt. David McBride said that after subsequent interviews, the upcoming eviction may not have been the motive behind the murder-suicide.

 

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