On the evening of May 23, 2019, 11-year-old Christine McDaniels and her parents, Joseph and Althea McDaniels, were shot and killed in their Bear Valley home in Denver. The family had been preparing to move to Mississippi when the killings occurred. A younger brother escaped unharmed and ran to a neighbor for help; the boy identified the shooter as his paternal grandmother’s husband, 59-year-old Bustaman Kartabrata. The family’s maternal grandmother survived by jumping from a second-story window.

Kartabrata reportedly left the house during a visit and returned claiming his wife had forgotten her purse, then allegedly produced a gun and opened fire. Althea McDaniels was pronounced dead at the scene; Joseph and Christine were taken to a nearby hospital and later died. The deaths were ruled homicides, and Kartabrata was located in northeast Denver and arrested on counts including first-degree murder and felony menacing. Investigators said Kartabrata knew the family well and that some conflict had occurred as the McDaniels were moving out, but a specific motive was not released.

Does anyone have information about tensions around the family’s move or about relationships between Kartabrata and the McDaniels?