Full coverage of the Chrismas eve rampage

Mourners gathered today to say goodbye to the family members killed in the shooting rampage. Here are brief biographies.

Covina’s small, tight-knit police department put its heart and soul into the Christmas Eve shooting investigation, trying to unravel a case that shocked the nation and devastated the community.

Accounts by relatives in the U.S. and Mexico reveal what happened after the elder Ortegas and 25 to 30 guests were confronted by gunman Bruce Jeffrey Pardo.

Authorities in Covina say the Christmas Eve shooter planned to kill his mother and his ex-wife’s divorce attorney.

Minutes before the Christmas Eve attack, the extended Ortega family had exchanged holiday greetings with relatives in their native Torreon, Mexico.

Relatives of those killed Christmas Eve are trying to arrange care for children who lost one or both parents in the rampage.

‘I have to be honest with you, I’m having trouble holding myself together,’ Nancy Windsor, 72, says after her son killed his ex-wife and eight members of her family.

Bruce Pardo had expressed distress over his divorce proceedings.

Those who knew the Ortega family, nine of whom were killed at a Christmas Eve party by a distraught ex-husband, recall them as a close-knit, warm and welcoming group.

Police have released the names of the nine people believed killed in the Christmas Eve massacre in Covina.

Bruce Pardo’s wife was appalled to learn that years earlier he had abandoned a brain-damaged son but still claimed him as a tax write-off.

Authorities say Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, dressed in a Santa suit, opened fire at a Christmas Eve party and then set the house ablaze. He is later found dead of a gunshot wound.