Friends Say Texas Gunman Was Angry Because of Wife's Success
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dec. 25: Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas. (AP)
Family friends say a Texas man accused of killing six relatives in a Christmas Day murder-suicide was struggling financially and didn't like that his estranged wife was doing well.
Authorities say 56-year-old Aziz Yazdanpanah was dressed as Santa when he fatally shot his estranged wife, their two teenage children and three other relatives Sunday inside an apartment in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine.
After a private burial for the six victims Thursday, family friend Azar Shahbazi said she believed Yazdanpanah was upset because his wife "was doing good on her own."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The wife's brother, says he'd been financially supporting the family. He says Yazdanpanah had been unemployed for more than a decade, but says he never thought Yazdanpanah would become violent.