Karthik Rajaram and his Family

Karthik Rajaram and five family members were found from gunshot wounds in their Porter Ranch home in the San Fernando Valley Monday morning in an apparent .
The bodies were found by police officers who went to the home after Rajaram’s wife failed to show up at a neighbor’s house to go to work.
Rajaram, 45, who once worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, had been unemployed for months and had become despondent over financial problems. Suicide notes found at the home indicate Rajaram felt himself and his family was the honorable thing to do, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Michel Moore.
Among the are Rajaram’s 69-year-old mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, his 19-year-old son, Krishna Rajaram, two other sons, ages 12 and 7 and his 39-year-old wife.

Rajaram's body was found by officers who followed a trail of carnage through the home in a gated community in the Porter Ranch area of the San Fernando Valley.

"Absolute devastation," Deputy Chief Michel Moore told reporters outside the home.
Investigators quickly found two letters and a will, and determined that the man once worked for a major accounting firm and was at least the part-owner of a financial holding company.
"The source of it appears to be a financial state, a crisis if you will, that this man became embroiled in that has unfolded over the past weeks," Moore said.
The man wrote in his letter that he felt he had two options — to just or to and his family — and decided the second option was more honorable, Moore said.
The bodies were found when officers were sent to make a check on the home Monday morning after the wife failed to show up at a neighbor's home to go to work as a pharmacy bookkeeper, Moore said.
Officers found the mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, in bed on the first floor. Upstairs, they found a 19-year-old son, Krishna Rajaram, in bed in the master bedroom.
The gunman's 39-year-old wife, Subasri, was found in another room, also apparently shot while sleeping, Moore said.
In an adjoining room, a 12-year-old son, Ganesha, was on the floor, and his 7-year-old brother, Arjuna, was in bed. Their father's body also was found there with a handgun "in his grasp," Moore said. The gun was purchased Sept. 16.
Coroner's assistant chief Ed Winter said the victims were shot multiple times.
The s occurred some time between midnight Saturday and early Monday morning, Winter said.
The father had a business degree and formerly worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, but had been unemployed for several months, Moore said. The deputy chief did not identify the financial holding company, though Nevada records show an incorporation there.
Moore did not specify what financial trouble the man had been in. He noted that the family did not own the home.
The man had no record of mental disabilities or contacts with mental health professionals in Los Angeles County, Moore said.
PricewaterhouseCoopers spokesman Steven Silber said Karthik Rajaram last worked for the company in 1999, but declined to offer any further information about him.
Sony Pictures Entertainment spokesman Steve Elzer did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Karthik Rajaram is listed as a co-manager of a corporation called SKGL LLC, which is incorporated in Nevada, according to state records. He formed the corporation for his family's assets and used his family members' initials to form the name, said Las Vegas attorney Christopher R. Grobl.
SKGL was incorporated in 1999 and renewed its annual business license in December 2007. Grobl did not know what sort of business SKGL was or why Rajaram incorporated in Nevada.
Krishna Rajaram was enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a junior majoring in business economics, spokesman Phil Hampton said.

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