'Carefully planned': Dad 'lured' 6-year-old daughter, her mom to parking lot 'ambush' where he killed both, police say

A 30-year-old begetter successful Texas is accused of gunning down his young daughter and her mother, allegedly luring them to their deaths nether the guise of giving them wealth successful what authorities described arsenic a "premeditated and targeted attack" carried retired amid a bitter custody dispute.

Detectives identified John Mbuyi arsenic the gunman who fatally changeable 33-year-old Raissa Thatukila and the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Nathy Mbuyi, earlier turning the limb connected himself, according to a news release from the Haltom City Police Department.

Investigators accidental the fatal brushwood was thing but spontaneous.

According to police, Mbuyi "lured the victims to the determination nether the pretense of providing money, wherever helium carried retired an ambush helium had cautiously planned successful advance."

"Investigators besides confirmed determination was an ongoing custody quality betwixt the fishy and the big victim, and grounds shows the fishy harbored important grievances toward her," the merchandise states.

Detectives besides uncovered troubling details astir Mbuyi's authorities of caput starring up to the violence, alleging helium was "experiencing idiosyncratic distress pursuing the decease of his begetter and expressed concerning thoughts related to death." Based connected those findings, investigators concluded the killings were "not a spontaneous incidental but a deliberate enactment of violence."

The shooting took spot astir 4:30 p.m. Friday successful the parking batch of Birdville ISD Stadium, successful the 6100 artifact of East Belknap, according to KDFW, a Dallas-Fort Worth Fox affiliate. Mbuyi reportedly drove a U-Haul motortruck to the parking lot, got out, and began unloading connected Thatukila's vehicle.

First responders reportedly recovered the 2 victims inactive wrong the mother's car. One of the victims was pronounced dormant astatine the scene, portion the different was transported to a section infirmary wherever she succumbed to her injuries. Mbuyi was recovered dormant adjacent from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The young unfortunate was aboriginal identified arsenic a kindergarten pupil astatine Cheney Hills Elementary School, prompting an outpouring of grief crossed the community.

"We are devastated by the nonaccomplishment of 1 of our students and heartbroken that this calamity occurred successful our community," the school's principal, Cheryl Waddell, wrote successful a connection to parents, per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "The nonaccomplishment of a pupil is ever hard and filled with a assortment of emotions. Our teachers and unit volition enactment with our students and families arsenic we navigate this affectional clip together."

In the aftermath of the killings, friends and assemblage members person reportedly created a memorial adjacent the scene, leaving flowers and stuffed animals successful grant of the victims.

Police person since indicated they volition not beryllium releasing further details.

"Out of respect for the household and friends affected by this tragedy, the Haltom City Police Department volition not beryllium releasing immoderate further accusation related to this incident," the section said, adding the determination is intended to springiness loved ones "the abstraction and privateness needed to grieve and statesman the process of healing."