The children have been identified as 5-year-old Aria Dingwall and 7-year-old Remy Dingwall, and their father as 37-year-old Joseph Dingwall.
Authorities in Florida said that a father and two young children were found dead in his home in an apparent murder-suicide .
A GoFundMe has now been launched for the children. A separate GiveSendGo has also been launched for the slain children. Police, however, noted that it was their mother’s day to have custody. Surveillance footage obtained by WFTV from a neighbor’s house from around that time shows a man stepping out of the house, pacing in circles, and then going back inside. It is unclear if that person was Joseph. “Anyone who knew Olivia, even for a short amount of time, knew about her children. You couldn’t know Olivia without knowing how much Remy and Aria meant to her. They were her entire world.
The three were found dead in a Cocoa, Florida home a little after noon on Wednesday, October 7, according to the Cocoa Police Department, People reported. The kids were discovered after their mother called 911. Because they missed school, according to the outlet, aria and Remy’s mother came to the house to check on the children.
Police believe Joseph was “responsible for the children’s deaths” and the evidence at the scene indicates this was a murder-suicide, people reported. Her life revolved around them, and every part of her heart belonged to being their mother,” said the fundraiser. She is the one who found the bodies, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by the Florida Today. A neighbor told police that they heard gunshots around midnight at the residence, WESH, WFTV and Florida Today reported.
