Santa Monica’s Third Suspected Murder-Suicide of 2026 Kills Couple on Fourth Street

A married couple was found dead inside their Santa Monica home on Fourth Street on Wednesday morning, in what police believe was the city’s third murder-suicide of the year. Officers responding to a welfare-check request at about 9:04 a.m. that day discovered two adults with apparent gunshot wounds inside a residence in the 2400 block of Fourth Street.