Fire captain guns down girlfriend and her son while co-workers battle 600-acre blaze: Cops

A firefighter from California is facing homicide charges successful the deaths of his 29-year-old woman and her son, according to authorities.

Darin McFarlin, 47, stands accused of sidesplitting his woman Marissa N. Divodi-Lessa and her son, who was identified by household arsenic Josiah Divodi-Lessa.

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said its deputies responded to a shooting astir 9 p.m. Thursday to a location successful the 3000 artifact of Oakwood Road successful Cameron Park, which is immoderate 30 miles eastbound connected Sacramento. When they arrived, they recovered the 2 victims wrong the location suffering from gunshot wounds. Divodi-Lessa was pronounced dormant connected country portion paramedics rushed her lad to the infirmary wherever helium aboriginal died.

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Investigators identified McFarlin arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement and arrested him a mates hours aboriginal connected homicide charges. McFarlin works for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known arsenic CalFire.

According to section NBC affiliate KCRA, McFarlin is simply a occurrence skipper for the Amador El Dorado unit. The agency, which is tasked with warring California's wildfires, told KCRA that it is monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, much than 1,000 of his fellow firefighters are battling a adjacent wildfire that was 37 percent contained arsenic of Sunday morning.

Cops person not released a motive for the slaying. A transgression ailment that would further item circumstances of the homicides was not instantly available.

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Divodi-Lessa leaves down a daughter. A GoFundMe page included a connection from the miss astir her parent and younger brother, who went by JoJo.

She ever made maine laugh. She would ever tuck successful astatine nighttime and we would ever archer each other, "I emotion you." "I emotion you more." "I emotion you most." We loved playing paper games, watching movies and hanging out. My brother, JoJo, would ever play games with me, particularly Hide-and-Seek. That day, we made a container with cute necklaces. The container had a fastener connected it. It was filled with toys successful it (as rewards) for whenever helium was good. He was specified a saccharine boy. JoJo had immoderate wellness issues and Mommy was truthful bully astir being definite helium had the close foods and due care. She was the champion Mommy everrrrr!

Josiah was a second-grader astatine Blue Oak Elementary School, KCRA reported.

McFarlin remains astatine the El Dorado County Jail without bond.