On December 18, 2008 a divorce was finalized between Bruce Pardo and Sylvia Ortega and only six days after that Pardo would act on a plan that he had been formulating and planning for for many months.
Bruce dressed up as Santa Clause, went to the Ortega family's Christmas Eve Party and would take the lives of nine members of Sylvia's family, including Sylvia herself.
Bruce would then, with a makeshift air compressor, set fire to the home but the explosion occured while he was still inside, giving him third-degree burns all over his body. He would later take his own life.
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