Man shoots and kills his entire family, then himself.

The final gunshot was the loudest.

It was crisp, startling, unmistakable, and it marked the end of a brutal Sunday afternoon rampage that left a 12-year-old girl dead after her father allegedly shot her, her older sister and her mother before he killed himself on the front lawn of the family's condominium in southwest Houston.
Soon after, emergency responders arrived at the scene and carried the bodies of the two critically wounded survivors down the stairs of from the family's second-floor condominium in the 6100 block of Reims.
They walked past the body of the girls' 47-year-old father, who lay under a white sheet as a crowd of neighbors and bystanders, many with children, watched investigators search for answers behind yellow police tape.
A 14-year-old girl, who was shot in the neck, and her 43-year-old mother, who was shot in the back, were taken to Ben Taub General Hospital in critical condition, Houston Police Department Spokesman John Cannon said. The 14-year-old girl was undergoing surgery for her "grave" injury Sunday and the woman was paralyzed, Cannon said.
The body of the 12-year-old girl, who was shot multiple times, remained in the condo unit as investigators examined evidence, he said.
It was not clear what set off the shooting or why it occurred, with witnesses noticing no commotion before the man fired shots indoors.

"It's safe to say that our challenge tonight is talking with the mother as much as she can talk, and apparently she's been able to talk, so that's what's going to help us try to tie some things together," Cannon said.
Police would not identify the father or his victims. Officials were unable to reach family members of anyone involved in the incident, Cannon said.
The sound of the final gunshot pierced through the hum of refrigerators inside Adam Dalami's convenience store, Dalami Food Mart, about 1:30 p.m. He rushed out the door and across the street to find one of his regular customers lying motionless on the ground after he had apparently shot himself in the head.
“I was very shocked because I knew this guy for many years," he said.

Too late for CPR
Jaculynn Jackson, a medical assistant at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, was on her way home when she saw the 47-year-old man collapse on the grass in front of his second-floor condo.
She got out of her car and scrambled toward him in an attempt to perform CPR, but it was too late. The man, who fell on top of a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, was dead.
"It's just troublesome," Jackson said.
Dalami said the man came to his store often and has discussed marital problems. He said the man had spoken of a divorce, but the couple still lived together.
Cannon said the man was the registered owner of the condominium unit. It appeared the children and the woman lived there as well, but it was not clear if the couple was married, he said.Woman called 911 Police responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call from the woman, who told an operator that she, her daughters, and possibly her husband, had been shot, Cannon said. Investigators searched police records for possible "red flags" related to past calls about domestic disputes or other incidents at the address, Cannon said.
"So far that's turning up nothing," he said. "It's not like we've got a lot to go on right now as far as the why it happened." As reported by Your Jewish news