That Electrifying Elated Feeling

The LA Times reports: Orange County contractor kills girlfriend, young son and himself.

An electrical contractor who was having financial problems shot to death his live-in girlfriend and 3 1/2-year-old son before killing himself, police said today.

Officers called to an apartment in Orange on Tuesday afternoon found the bodies of Craig Rubin, 44, and Mary Striley, 42, on beds in separate bedrooms while the body of their son, Jake, was in a high chair in the kitchen, Sgt. Dan Adams said.

Each had been shot once in the head.

A work van labeled Rubin Electric was parked outside the apartment.