DORAL, Fla. — The family of a 46-year-old Doral woman who was slain alongside her daughters in what police said was a murder-suicide carried out by the girls’ father released a statement this week to the media.
“We are the family of Melanie Lauren Hyer — her mother and her sister, and Alvin Jaramillo, the man who had the privilege of being her husband, and who remained one of her closest and most devoted friends until the day she was taken from us,” the statement read. “We speak together because Melanie deserves to have her story told accurately, and because her daughters — Savannah and Sienna — deserve the same.”
According to investigators, Doral police officers responded to the victims’ home in the gated Doral Isles community on the night of June 2 after a concerned family friend requested a welfare check…