Mystery, and possibly missed signs, surround brothers' deaths, In some ways, it's the a lot of abstract affectionate of mystery.
To many, it had looked as admitting the Fuentes boys were branch against happiness.
The belligerent brothers, ages 8, 9 and 10, had started a new academy year and were set to activate canon classes that weekend.
Their ancestor had been authoritative affairs to move them aback into the South Los Angeles home area they had lived for 5 years, and area bedding emblazoned with basketballs, footballs, baseballs and — their admired — soccer balls, were still neatly tucked into their applesauce beds.
Now they are dead, and for abounding who apperceive the family, the abstruseness is: What aphotic abutting armament could possibly accept unleashed the torrent of ache wounds that larboard Luis, Juan and Alexander Fuentes asleep in the aback of the car in which they'd allegedly been living, one child's eyes still accessible wide?
Authorities adduce that their father, Luis Fuentes, inflicted the wounds on the boys and again stabbed himself. They accept answerable him with annihilation and say he is the sole doubtable in the case.
Earlier this month, Fuentes, dressed in a dejected suicide blockage gown, sobbed aboveboard as his wheelchair was formed into a city courtroom.
Passing his girlfriend, Josefina Barrales, he issued a plea:
Perdoname.
Forgive me.
At the boys' deathwatch on Friday, abounding of Fuentes' ancestors and accompany seemed to be analytic abominably for a way to do that.
Loved ones, including Barrales, with whom he and the boys had aggregate a home, sobbed over anniversary white casket, kissing the boys on their foreheads and allurement for an acknowledgment to what happened. Inside the boys lay peacefully, anniversary with a chaplet and flowers placed aloft their suit-clad bodies.
Three-year-old Andrew, Luis Fuentes' youngest son with Barrales, peered down at his stepbrothers from his mother's arms, as she adored anniversary one with a cross.
"Estan mimis," he told his mother, about as if abating her. "They're sleeping."
Paula Trejo, a about of the boys' mother, was acutely shaken. "We wish to accusation someone. ... We wish to apperceive why."
"We accept no answers," the affect told aggregate congregants, "but we accept affluence of questions."
His words echoed through the aforementioned abbey area the boys' parents had wed.
It was aswell the abbey area they and their ancestor had abounding a burying accumulation seven years ago, afterwards their mother died al of a sudden of an aneurysm.
Barrales and Fuentes met in the ham-boning administration at Farmer John, afterwards he alternate from leave afterwards his wife's death.
Fuentes, who admired to dance, would sometimes yield Barrales out to the Lido Club in Long Beach for a night of bachata, in which couples authority anniversary added close, sometimes breaking into about acrobatic moves.
While the two were never married, she wore a affiance ring he'd accustomed her and kept the marriage rings he'd bought them stored abroad in her closet.
Fuentes and Barrales slept in the baby home's bedchamber with the four adolescent boys in the applesauce beds. They dreamed of affairs a big abode with three or four rooms, Barrales said in Spanish.
"We were a blessed family. As a father, as a husband, he was good. I can't allege abominably about him. He loves his kids," she said.
Photos of the animated boys about the abode assume to appearance the affectionate of admiring ancestor abounding ancestors associates and accompany say Fuentes had been.
On his sons' birthdays he would sing forth with Las Mananitas, a acceptable Mexican altogether song, while snapping photos and videos of the boys.
On Monday afternoons he'd accumulate with them to watch wrestling. The boys best their favorites — Luis adopted John Cena and Juan admired Dolph Ziggler. Alex admired them all.
On cine nights, Fuentes would accomplish airheaded and they'd all watch comedies or alarming films. If Alex would leave during alarming parts, the earlier boys would aggravate him affably about getting "a girl."
"I didn't accept a little brother until I met Luis, Juan and Alex, so I never got to acquaintance that," said Victor Galeana, 22, Barrales' son from a antecedent relationship. "Even admitting they would get mad at anniversary other, at the end of the day they'd still say they were brothers."
Galeana laughed as he remembered the boys arena out scenes from "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, their admired movies.
When they weren't reenacting movies scenes or angry matches, they'd ask their dad for advice on their appointment or to bang about a soccer brawl outside. If he was too annoyed to play, Fuentes would associate alfresco from the sofa, befitting a abutting eye on the boys.
Today, Barrales can't accept that she absent what she now sees as signs of astringent depression. Fuentes had absent his ancestor at a adolescent age, his mother if he was about 18 years old and afterwards his wife. He never went to analysis to accord with the deaths, Barrales said, and she thinks it contributed to his depression.
"I feel bad," Barrales said. "Not to see the signs and apperceive he suffered."
There were added problems in the ancestors as well.
Over the endure several years, there had been calls to the county's adolescent corruption hotline alleging corruption in the home, and the Administration of Accouchement and Ancestors Services opened and bankrupt cases, admiral told the Los Angeles Times. The bureau has launched an analysis into whether amusing workers abundantly probed the allegations and whether agents responded appropriately to what they learned.
Barrales accustomed that a amusing artisan came by the home asking, she said, whether Luis had hit Alex. Barrales said that didn't happen.
But she and Fuentes did accept their problems, and in mid-July, Fuentes confused out of the home, Barrales said. He confused his three earlier sons in with his sister, again larboard afterwards a ages or so.
After that, he would acquaint Barrales he was blockage in a motel, or sometimes sleeping with the boys in his car.
Near the end of August, Barrales said she pleaded with Fuentes to accompany the accouchement home. He said he would, and Barrales anchored up their beds, bankrupt the abode and waited for them to return.
"He didn't accompany them."
But they kept talking about reuniting, she said.
The night afore the incident, she alleged Fuentes but he didn't answer.
When he didn't appearance up for plan in the morning, she began to worry. Her articulation bankrupt as she recalled the badge arriving.
"My dreams of my bedmate returning, of us getting like we were, are gone," Barrales said.
As ancestors associates stepped advanced to add flowers to the boys' caskets at the burying account on Friday, Barrales afraid Andrew, who laid a duke on anniversary casket.
Under the adumbration of a adjacent tree, Barrales' physique befuddled with sobs as she watched the caskets bargain into the ground, appropriate area their mother lies.
Andrew bound Barrales' tear-soaked face amid his easily and asked her over and over for his brothers.
Every time he asked, she'd point to the boxes in foreground of them.
"Que es eso?" he asked her, pointing as anniversary box abolished into the earth. "What is that?"
"Es address de ellos," she told him, her articulation wavering. "It's their home."
To many, it had looked as admitting the Fuentes boys were branch against happiness.
The belligerent brothers, ages 8, 9 and 10, had started a new academy year and were set to activate canon classes that weekend.Their ancestor had been authoritative affairs to move them aback into the South Los Angeles home area they had lived for 5 years, and area bedding emblazoned with basketballs, footballs, baseballs and — their admired — soccer balls, were still neatly tucked into their applesauce beds.
Now they are dead, and for abounding who apperceive the family, the abstruseness is: What aphotic abutting armament could possibly accept unleashed the torrent of ache wounds that larboard Luis, Juan and Alexander Fuentes asleep in the aback of the car in which they'd allegedly been living, one child's eyes still accessible wide?
Authorities adduce that their father, Luis Fuentes, inflicted the wounds on the boys and again stabbed himself. They accept answerable him with annihilation and say he is the sole doubtable in the case.
Earlier this month, Fuentes, dressed in a dejected suicide blockage gown, sobbed aboveboard as his wheelchair was formed into a city courtroom.
Passing his girlfriend, Josefina Barrales, he issued a plea:
Perdoname.
Forgive me.
At the boys' deathwatch on Friday, abounding of Fuentes' ancestors and accompany seemed to be analytic abominably for a way to do that.
Loved ones, including Barrales, with whom he and the boys had aggregate a home, sobbed over anniversary white casket, kissing the boys on their foreheads and allurement for an acknowledgment to what happened. Inside the boys lay peacefully, anniversary with a chaplet and flowers placed aloft their suit-clad bodies.
Three-year-old Andrew, Luis Fuentes' youngest son with Barrales, peered down at his stepbrothers from his mother's arms, as she adored anniversary one with a cross.
"Estan mimis," he told his mother, about as if abating her. "They're sleeping."
Paula Trejo, a about of the boys' mother, was acutely shaken. "We wish to accusation someone. ... We wish to apperceive why."
"We accept no answers," the affect told aggregate congregants, "but we accept affluence of questions."
His words echoed through the aforementioned abbey area the boys' parents had wed.
It was aswell the abbey area they and their ancestor had abounding a burying accumulation seven years ago, afterwards their mother died al of a sudden of an aneurysm.
Barrales and Fuentes met in the ham-boning administration at Farmer John, afterwards he alternate from leave afterwards his wife's death.
Fuentes, who admired to dance, would sometimes yield Barrales out to the Lido Club in Long Beach for a night of bachata, in which couples authority anniversary added close, sometimes breaking into about acrobatic moves.
While the two were never married, she wore a affiance ring he'd accustomed her and kept the marriage rings he'd bought them stored abroad in her closet.
Fuentes and Barrales slept in the baby home's bedchamber with the four adolescent boys in the applesauce beds. They dreamed of affairs a big abode with three or four rooms, Barrales said in Spanish.
"We were a blessed family. As a father, as a husband, he was good. I can't allege abominably about him. He loves his kids," she said.
Photos of the animated boys about the abode assume to appearance the affectionate of admiring ancestor abounding ancestors associates and accompany say Fuentes had been.
On his sons' birthdays he would sing forth with Las Mananitas, a acceptable Mexican altogether song, while snapping photos and videos of the boys.
On Monday afternoons he'd accumulate with them to watch wrestling. The boys best their favorites — Luis adopted John Cena and Juan admired Dolph Ziggler. Alex admired them all.
On cine nights, Fuentes would accomplish airheaded and they'd all watch comedies or alarming films. If Alex would leave during alarming parts, the earlier boys would aggravate him affably about getting "a girl."
"I didn't accept a little brother until I met Luis, Juan and Alex, so I never got to acquaintance that," said Victor Galeana, 22, Barrales' son from a antecedent relationship. "Even admitting they would get mad at anniversary other, at the end of the day they'd still say they were brothers."
Galeana laughed as he remembered the boys arena out scenes from "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, their admired movies.
When they weren't reenacting movies scenes or angry matches, they'd ask their dad for advice on their appointment or to bang about a soccer brawl outside. If he was too annoyed to play, Fuentes would associate alfresco from the sofa, befitting a abutting eye on the boys.
Today, Barrales can't accept that she absent what she now sees as signs of astringent depression. Fuentes had absent his ancestor at a adolescent age, his mother if he was about 18 years old and afterwards his wife. He never went to analysis to accord with the deaths, Barrales said, and she thinks it contributed to his depression.
"I feel bad," Barrales said. "Not to see the signs and apperceive he suffered."
There were added problems in the ancestors as well.
Over the endure several years, there had been calls to the county's adolescent corruption hotline alleging corruption in the home, and the Administration of Accouchement and Ancestors Services opened and bankrupt cases, admiral told the Los Angeles Times. The bureau has launched an analysis into whether amusing workers abundantly probed the allegations and whether agents responded appropriately to what they learned.
Barrales accustomed that a amusing artisan came by the home asking, she said, whether Luis had hit Alex. Barrales said that didn't happen.
But she and Fuentes did accept their problems, and in mid-July, Fuentes confused out of the home, Barrales said. He confused his three earlier sons in with his sister, again larboard afterwards a ages or so.
After that, he would acquaint Barrales he was blockage in a motel, or sometimes sleeping with the boys in his car.
Near the end of August, Barrales said she pleaded with Fuentes to accompany the accouchement home. He said he would, and Barrales anchored up their beds, bankrupt the abode and waited for them to return.
"He didn't accompany them."
But they kept talking about reuniting, she said.
The night afore the incident, she alleged Fuentes but he didn't answer.
When he didn't appearance up for plan in the morning, she began to worry. Her articulation bankrupt as she recalled the badge arriving.
"My dreams of my bedmate returning, of us getting like we were, are gone," Barrales said.
As ancestors associates stepped advanced to add flowers to the boys' caskets at the burying account on Friday, Barrales afraid Andrew, who laid a duke on anniversary casket.
Under the adumbration of a adjacent tree, Barrales' physique befuddled with sobs as she watched the caskets bargain into the ground, appropriate area their mother lies.
Andrew bound Barrales' tear-soaked face amid his easily and asked her over and over for his brothers.
Every time he asked, she'd point to the boxes in foreground of them.
"Que es eso?" he asked her, pointing as anniversary box abolished into the earth. "What is that?"
"Es address de ellos," she told him, her articulation wavering. "It's their home."
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