A surgeon suffering from “severe” depression killed himself and his two young children because he feared the kids would “grow up to be like him“, his family says.
Dr Christopher Dawson, 36, was found dead alongside the bodies of his daughter Aubrey, five, known as Bree, and Luke, nine, at their home in North Richland Hills, Texas, The Sun reports.
Neighbours heard the screams of the doctor’s wife Rachel, who was not harmed, when she discovered her family’s remains last Saturday morning and called the police. The family posted an obituary to the father and the children in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram confirming the doctor had “lost the battle of severe depression.”
The obituary reveals that dad Chris “helped Luke through a lot of his anxiety, but was overwhelmed with the thought of Luke growing up to be like him.”
