“This is how it ends for us,” Christopher Wood told his estranged wife on Thursday night, January 2.

The next day, on Friday morning, 51-year-old Christopher Wood and his 14-year-old daughter, Ava Wood, were found dead in their apartment in Baldwinsville, New York, in what appeared to be a murder-suicide. 

Mrs. Wood called the police when the girl’s school told her that her daughter, a ninth grader at Durgee Junior High, did not go to school that day. The police visited the apartment to do a welfare check at 8:30 am on Friday morning.

Ava was found on her bed, dead from a gunshot wound. Her father was found in another room, dead from what looked like a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police believe Wood must have shot Ava first, and killed himself after.

Reportedly, Ava’s parents were having domestic problems previously, including episodes of stalking in March 2022. The couple was living apart, with Ava spending most of the time with her father. The parents apparently got into an argument a day before the tragic murder/suicide.

Ava was an athlete at her upstate New York junior high school. She was a member of the Girls’ Junior Varsity Soccer Team and the Track and Field Team. She was also an honor student. 

Friends paid tribute to the 14-year-old girl on her Instagram account. The police continue to investigate the incident.

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