Two more dead in latest murder-suicide in DeKalb County

DECATUR - Officials said a husband and wife died in the third murder-suicide in the past week in DeKalb County, where domestic violence has claimed nine lives. <br> <br> Police found the bodies of a 41-year-old man and his 34-year-old wife in a car in the parking lot of a Stone Mountain doctor&#39;s office Thursday morning. <br> <br> On Tuesday, Ian Willabus, his wife, and his three small sons were found dead in their apartment. Autopsies showed that Willabus, a 33-year-old freelance journalist with CNN International, carried out the shootings. <br> <br> On Wednesday, the bodies of Michael Covington, 41, and Richard Shore, 44, were found in their residence. Police said Shore shot Covington and then killed himself. <br> <br> Thursday&#39;s victims were Alan Booker and his wife, Tammy, according to relatives who said they were notified by police of their deaths. <br> <br> Police spokesman Dale Davis said the woman had taken her 13-year-old son to the doctor&#39;s office and the father was either waiting or followed them to the office. <br> <br> ``The child went into the doctor&#39;s office and the victim was waiting in the car alone when the father apparently shot her and himself,&#39;&#39; Davis said. <br> <br> ``We have no report of ever responding to their home on a domestic call, but the couple&#39;s history will be examined,&#39;&#39; he said. <br> <br> The rash of murder-suicides has little explanation. <br> <br> Robert Friedmann, chairman of the department of criminal justice at Georgia State University, said sometimes the first incident sparks others. <br> <br> ``It could be a coincidence, but it also could be something more,&#39;&#39; Friedmann said. ``One incident could have been a trigger incident to another one, sort of a copycat. When somebody is on the brink of despair or violence...it might give them the push they need.&#39;&#39;

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