
In a statement, the Jackson Local School District said it “grieves the loss of two young children, and their family.” The Mavarakis family Family handout He was deployed to Afghanistan from January 2002 to July 2002, and twice served in Iraq, from February 2003 to February 2004 and September 2007 to November 2008. Mavrakis served in the US Army from April 1993 through July 2013 and retired as a staff sergeant, The Repository reported, citing the US Department of Defense. A relative told dispatchers that Nicholas Mavrakis, a military veteran, suffered from PTSD. The neighbor, who said he also had a military background, said Nicholas suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder following his deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.


The Jackson Township Detective Bureau, as well as the Coroner’s Office and Bureau of Criminal Investigation, are investigating the case as a triple homicide and suicide, cops said.Ī neighbor told The Repository that Nicholas and Lesley, who had moved into the neighborhood in 2016, were “always very cordial to me.” Family handout The Mavarakis family lived in a ritzy Ohio suburb. The family of four were found dead on Father’s Day. Responding officers found all four family members deceased, and the incident is being investigated as a domestic dispute that turned deadly. “I know her husband has like PTSD from the military and he’s been having problems,” the relative told dispatchers, according to the report. One of Lesley’s relatives called 911 after she came to the home and no one answered the door, The Repository reported. Sunday in their home on Salerno Street NW in Jackson Township, about five miles from Canton, local police said. Nicholas Mavrakis III, 47, Lesley Mavrakis, 37, Ace Mavarakis, 13, and Pippa Mavrakis, 5, were found dead shortly after 4 p.m. Swastika-wearing Australia man waving Nazi flag fatally shoots co-worker, takes own life during police standoff: reportīeloved Florida charter-school math teacher shot dead before killer turned gun on himself: copsĪ husband, wife and two children were fatally shot on Father’s Day in what investigators are probing as a murder-suicide in a home in a ritzy Ohio neighborhood, according to police and a local report. ‘Brave’ girl, 11, survives house fire by jumping out window after ‘schizophrenic’ dad set blaze that killed mom, siblingsĪlabama sheriff’s deputy kills girlfriend, self in murder-suicide: officials
