New York:

The deaths of a rich Indian-origin couple and their daughter within the US state of Massachusetts final week have been dominated a murder-suicide by medical authorities after post-mortem.

Rakesh Kamal, 57, his spouse Teena Kamal, 54 and their college-going daughter Arianna Kamal, 18 have been discovered useless of their USD 5 million mansion in Dover, Massachusetts on December 28, 2023.

A firearm was discovered close to Rakesh Kamal.

A press launch issued by the workplace of Norfolk District Legal professional Michael Morrissey on Tuesday stated that post-mortem outcomes issued by the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner affirm that Teena and her daughter Arianna have been victims of murder by gunshot.

Rakesh died from a “gunshot wound in keeping with being self-inflicted”. The ultimate post-mortem report is more likely to be accomplished within the coming weeks.

The discharge additional stated that whereas full forensic and ballistics testing of the gun has not been finalised, the firearm discovered with Rakesh is in keeping with a .40 calibre Glock 22.

Nonetheless, the firearm was not registered in Rakesh’s title and “he was not licensed to own it,” the discharge added.

Massachusetts State Police have contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for help in figuring out the origin of the firearm. The incident stays below investigation by Dover and Massachusetts State Police.

Final week, Morrissey stated that the preliminary investigation indicated the incident was a case of home violence and didn’t initially point out the involvement of outdoor events.

Dover Police obtained a 911 name requesting a response to the Kamal residence at roughly 7:24 p.m. on December 28 by a member of the family who had stopped by to verify on the household.

The police discovered the Kamal household useless when it arrived on the scene. Investigators had labored the crime scene via a lot of the evening.

Dover is about 32 kilometres southwest of downtown Boston, the capital of Massachusetts.

Morrissey has stated that there had been no prior police reviews or home incidents tied to the house.

The household’s sprawling mansion, estimated to be price USD 5.45 million, went into foreclosures a yr in the past and was bought for USD 3 million, in accordance with a report in The New York Publish.

The Kamals bought the 19,000-square-foot property, which boasts 11 bedrooms and 14 loos, for USD 4 million in 2019, in accordance with the data, and media reviews.

The slain members of the family have been the one ones residing within the mansion on the time, the DA stated, including that the realm, one of many richest within the state, was a pleasant neighbourhood and a secure neighborhood.

Teena and her husband, who additionally glided by Rick, had beforehand run a now-defunct schooling programs firm referred to as EduNova. The couple appeared to have confronted monetary issues lately, on-line data present. Their firm was launched in 2016 however was dissolved in December 2021, state data present.

Teena was listed on EduNova’s web site because the chief working officer of the corporate, describing her as an alum of Harvard College and Delhi College in India.

In line with his biography on the EduNova web site, Kamal was an alumnus of Boston College and MIT Sloan Faculty of Administration, in addition to Stanford College.

Earlier than working at EduNova, he held many executive-level positions within the education-consulting area, the biography added.

EduNova marketed a pupil success system designed to enhance the grades of scholars in center college, highschool and school, The Boston Globe newspaper reported.

Teena filed for Chapter 13 chapter in September 2022 itemizing between USD 1 million and USD 10 million in liabilities, filings present. The case, nonetheless, was dismissed two months later as a result of inadequate documentation. She was listed as one of many board of administrators for the American Pink Cross of Massachusetts.

Her on-line bio famous her greater than three a long time of working within the schooling and know-how industries.

In the meantime, the couple’s daughter was a pupil at Middlebury School, a USD 64,800-a-year personal liberal arts college in Vermont, the place she was learning neuroscience, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile.

Morrissey additionally stated {that a} murder had not been reported in Dover since 2020, and he has by no means labored a murder case from that neighbourhood since he began his place as District Legal professional 12 years in the past.

Morrissey had stated that it was very uncommon to have this type of a violent state of affairs virtually in any neighborhood in Norfolk County, notably Dover. It is a small, well-run neighborhood, however like everyone else, there are issues on the market that may have an effect on regardless of the place one lives, he had stated.

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