EDMONDS – A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday for two young girls police believe were murdered by their father.
Hayley Byrne, 9, and Kelsey Byrne, 11, were found dead inside their father’s Edmonds home Nov. 22. He was found dead in the backyard from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police found him and the girls after Byrne dialed 911 and told the dispatcher to send police and medics. Before killing himself, he sent an e-mail to family and friends saying he was going to harm himself and the girls, citing his anger and frustration with the court system, police said.
Byrne was upset that his former wife, Suzanne Dawson, had been granted primary custody of the girls when the couple divorced in 2000, family and friends said.
The cause of the girls’ deaths is still under investigation.
The memorial service will be at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, 6215 196th St. SW, said Oliver Feeback, the girl’s uncle.
Both girls were students at Sunset Elementary School in Shoreline.
A memorial fund for Kelsey and Hayley has been established at Bethel Presbyterian Church, 11002 Greenwood Ave N. in Seattle.
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