Simi Valley police said Tuesday, Dec. 2, that they believe that Keith E. Cordes, the son of Eric Cordes and stepson of Vicki Cordes, killed the couple in their garage on Sunday.

“He’s our primary suspect,” Sgt. Rick Morton said.

Police had not previously conclusively linked the man found dead of a gunshot wound in a Chino park to the crime.

Police and the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday identified Keith E. Cordes, 37, as the man who shot himself at Ayala Park in Chino around 2:30 p.m. and was found lying next to his burning car. The discovery happened about two and a half hours after witnesses saw a man point a gun into an open garage and shoot Eric Cordes, a 63-year-old radiologist, and Vicki Cordes, 66.

Both suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Morton said.

Detectives

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