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Murder, suicide shatters family in Redondo Beach
by Jason Dietrich
A Redondo Beach man killed his 5-year-old son before shooting himself, Monday on the 2700 block of Ruhland Avenue.
Police said Osvaldo Imperale Bloise, 54, entered the bedroom where his sons Samuel, 5, and Gene, 7, were sleeping about 9 a.m. Monday morning. He carried with him a .357 caliber handgun he had bought in June. His wife Cristine had already gone to work, and his teenaged children, Albert, 14, and Olivia, 15, were in another room.
Bloise shot his son, Samuel, in the head before lying down next to the boy and shooting himself in the head. A bullet fragment hit Gene, who was sleeping in the bed next to Samuel. Paramedics transported the boy to County Harbor-UCLA Medical center where he was treated and released in the custody of his mother. Bloise and Samuel were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police were not sure why Bloise decided to commit suicide and kill his son. Originally from Brazil, Bloise was a cardiologist before immigrating to the United States eight years ago. Until last year, he had been unable to pass the licensing tests that would allow him to practice in California. In the meantime he was working as a cardiologist's assistant at Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center in Willowbrook. He did not leave a suicide note.
"Still it's just conjecture on what his motives were. It's hard to tell what was going through his mind," said Sergeant Phil Keenan of the Redondo Beach Police Department. "In Brazil he was top of the heap and here he was doing a lot of menial jobs, which his family said was bothering him."
Bloise had no official history of mental illness and had not been in trouble with police. Samuel, the baby of the family, was reportedly Bloise's favorite child.
"The family is absolutely decimated. Not only did they lose their father, they lost their youngest sibling," Keenan said. ER