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Connecticut Mom Strangled Three Kids to Death in Home and Then Hanged Herself in Backyard Shed: Police
AARON KELLER Jul 28th, 2022, 5:04 pm
Detective Captain Mark Williams identified the three innocent victims as 5-year-old Jonael Panjon, 10-year-old Joselyn Panjon, and 12-year-old Junior Panjon.
Their mother, 36-year-old Sonia Loja, died by suicide, Williams wrote on the police department’s Facebook page.
“Ms. Loja is the mother of the three children, and they all resided [in a house on] Whaley Street” in Danbury, Williams continued. “The children all appear to have died by strangulation, and the mother’s suspected cause of death is asphyxia by hanging.”
Danbury is in western Connecticut near the New York State border.
An official autopsy is pending, Williams noted in the Facebook post, but his department’s “preliminary findings indicate that Ms. Loja strangled her three children before killing herself.” Williams cautioned, however, that the investigation remained ongoing.
Two other adults who lived in the residence in question were not present when the police arrived, the Facebook post added.
Hartford CBS affiliate WFSB reported that the incident was reported at 6:15 on Wednesday. Police Chief Patrick Ridenhour told the television station that the three dead children were found inside a home at the aforementioned address and that their mother was found in a shed in the backyard.
The original 911 call was made by a “distraught” and “crying” male, Ridenhour told WFSB.