A mother and her three children were pictured smiling next to the husband and father who killed them in a horrific rampage 4 years later.
Jason Dej-Oudom, 34, shot lifeless his wife on a Las Vegas boulevard Wednesday sooner than returning home and committing suicide surrounded by the bodies of their 3 children, aged nine to fifteen.
His spouse, Phoukeo Dej-Oudom, 35, had filed for divorce ultimate month and asked for custody of the children, the Review Journal reported.
She had written in court docket papers that her husband was 'a flight chance' who may now not cling a job and insisted the children needed to be placed in her care.
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Jason Dej-Oudom (left), 34, fatally shot his wife Phoukeo (proper), 35, and their children Dalavanh Ariel (heart), Xonajuk JJ (right) and Anhurak Jason (entrance) earlier than killing himself Wednesday night time, authorities mentioned
A circle of relatives picture taken in 2012 displays Phoukeo and her husband smiling subsequent to their children Anhurak Jason, who was once Nine on the time of the killing Wednesday, Xonajuk JJ, 14, and Dalavanh Ariel, 15.
Dej-Oudom and his spouse had been married since 2000.
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SharePolice discovered all three children and their father dead throughout the circle of relatives's rental within the Torrey Pines Condominiums.
Dej-Oudom also fatally shot his wife in a Walgreens parking lot that evening and killed himself after gunning down his circle of relatives, authorities said.
Dej-Oudom (left) was a 'flight possibility' who may just not cling a role and on occasion took his children out of state with out his spouse's knowledge or consent, she wrote in a movement soliciting for number one custody. SWAT officers found his body in addition to the ones of Dalavanh, 15; Xonajuk, 14; and Anhurak, Nine after entering the family's house on Torrey Pines Drive (pictured proper with police barricade)
Phoukeo had filed for divorce only a month prior to the carnage in Clark County.
She had checked containers in her filing, dated May 25, indicating domestic violence and Child Protective Services have been concerned in the case, the Review Journal wrote.
'The father is a flight chance, and the children want to be in my maintain training functions, and stability,' she wrote in a motion in search of primary custody. 'Father can not cling a job.'
Phoukeo, a certified cosmetologist, didn't seek spousal or child strengthen. She wrote that she sought after to take 'complete duty financially' and that it was as much as each and every mum or dad to 'supply willingly'.
She complained that her husband every now and then to the children back to Ohio, where that they had lived prior to now, without her wisdom or consent.
This, she wrote, led to them to miss school days and assessments.
All five were living underneath the similar roof in Las Vegas since March last yr after shifting out of Columbus, Ohio.
Dej-Oudom used to be spotted chasing his spouse on Torrey Pines Drive, just south of Lake Mead and north of the family's 1900 N Torrey Pines apartment, on Wednesday.
A just right Samaritan tried to intrude and save Phoukeo, however used to be powerless to stop the horrific events, the Review Journal mentioned.
A man heard her screaming for help around 7.20pm Wednesday as he drove his automobile down Torrey Pines Drive. He picked her up, however then found himself being chased through her husband.
Phoukeo died after gettign shot by way of her husband in a Walgreens automobile parking space (pictured) in Las Vegas Wednesday. Her husband then fled the scene
Witnesses (pictured) heard 4 pictures before Phoukeo fell down dead. A SWAT group tracked her husband to the couple's home, however they didn't enter until they realized children were within
Dej-Oudom pursued them to a CVS drug store two blocks away, sooner than pulling a gun at the pair and dragging his wife into his automobile at gunpoint.
As he sped off, his spouse hung out of the window, sooner or later escaping and working away. She controlled to run to a Walgreens about half of one mile away, however her husband stuck up with her in his automobile.
Witnesses out of doors the store reported hearing four gunshots around 7:30pm. A bystander rushed to Phoukeo after she slumped to the bottom, however she was already lifeless. She had at least one gunshot wound to the head.
Dej-Oudom fled, however a relative called police at around 8pm pronouncing he used to be on the family's condominium and suicidal.
A SWAT group answered to the cope with, deploying flashbang grenades and shouting 'We know you might be in there' even though loudhailers, but didn't make contact with him.
Hours passed earlier than they realized that the couple's children have been inside, at which level they entered the development.
Inside they found the our bodies of the father and three children in a bedroom.
Authorities don't seem to be positive if Dej-Oudom killed the children earlier than or after his wife.
'It's actually laborious to know how this is able to happen, how anyone may just do that to children,' police Lieutenant Dan McGrath said.
He added that the carnage inside the home was arduous at the investigators.
Domestic violence reports involving the family have been noted previous this month on the same apartment and in an out-of-state incident in 2006, he added.
Officers said the scene inside the house was once distressing. Phoukeo had married Dej-Oudom in 2000 and had filed for divorce on May 25, saying the children needed to be with her for the sake of education and balance
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