Domestic violence warning signs emerge after family slaughter

🚨A man kills his estranged wife, their children and her parents at their Berkeley home

🚨Ring camera shows the mother running for her life as the gunman chases and fires

🚨The couple fought in a QuickChek parking lot in February, according to NJ.com

BERKELEY — Tragic details are coming out about the morning when Vaughn Stewart shot and killed the mother of his children and his in-laws before taking his own life.

Police records reveal that Stewart, 37, of Maplewood, also had a history of domestic violence, including a public and brutal attack on a woman at a convenience store just weeks earlier.

Stewart went to his in-laws’ home on Fairwood Drive in Berkeley around 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, when he shot Allan Russell, 61, and Michelle Russell, 60, the parents of his wife, Deonna Stewart. She had been living in her parents’ home with the children since their separation…

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