On March 10, 2024, officers responding to a welfare check at an apartment in the Royalton on the Green Apartments, 17400 Northwest 68th Avenue in Miami‑Dade, found four members of a family dead. Victims were identified as Yumara Martinez Morejon, 50; her husband, Victor Peñalba Gonzalez, 60; and their children, Jason Peñalba, 18, and Stephanie Peñalba, 13. Police reported Yumara and the two children died of gunshot wounds. Victor Peñalba Gonzalez was found dead of a self‑inflicted gunshot wound and is believed to be the perpetrator.

Investigators believe the bodies had been in the apartment for more than a week before discovery. Family members described a troubled household: Yumara and Victor had separated and reunited multiple times since their 2007 marriage, Victor had recently lost his job with the Hialeah water department and moved back in, and relatives said the family disapproved of his return. Two weeks before the bodies were found, Jason sent a worrying message indicating something bad might happen if he wasn’t heard from within several days. The school district sent a crisis team to Hialeah Middle School after Stephanie’s death.

Does anyone who knew the family or has information about their situation around March 2024 have anything to share?