More than 1,500 mourned a 12-year-old boy killed with his mother by his father in a murder-suicide

More than 1,000 students and parents mourned the 12-year-old boy who was murdered alongside his mother in their $2 million home by his father in what police described as a murder-suicide.

Investigators have speculated that Andrew Robinson, 56, shot his wife Linda Robinson, 55, and their 12-year-old son Sebastian, before turning the gun on himself in their $2 million mansion in Andover, Massachusetts. , around 3 am on Thursday.

The school held the service to help its community mourn the 12-year-old boy, who was described as loving playing his cello pictured in front, along with one of his sixth grade projects.

“Sebastian was a caring and compassionate classmate,” said a teacher as part of the hour-long vigil held at the Danvers school.

“It was very comforting,” said Anna Berrian, mother of Boston 25.

A sixth grader named Michael was close friends with Sebastian and told the outlet: “If I had two words to describe him: gentle giant,” Michael said. ‘He never really talked about his personal life. I do not know what happened.

Another student said: ‘I was stunned. I felt like I had been taken out of breath.

Around 1,500 students were in St John’s on Thursday night, while school was canceled that day and on Friday.

Linda, Sebastian and Andrew were found dead in their $2 million mansion in Andover, Massachusetts, after police received a strange call from inside the house with a voice in the background saying, “Kill me now.”

Police arrived at the home and were ordered to proceed with caution after a man was heard screaming and objects were broken in the background of the 911 call, a dispatcher told officers.

It’s unclear who made the call, but the dispatcher claimed there was no response from the caller.

Linda was an accountant and model, her uncle David Arsenault told her. the boston globe. “She was as angelic as she seems.”

Linda’s father, Joseph Hachey, visited the house with his half-brothers David and Roger Arsenault. The three of them sat around the dining room table looking at the family photos.

Hachey remembered Sebastian as ‘an angel’.

She recalled that she didn’t see Linda as much when the pandemic hit and referred to their lives as “private.”

“They went out and bought a big freezer and filled it with food, hooked up the house with electric generators,” Hachey said.

‘I would ask my son [Steve], ‘Have you seen your sister?’ And he’d say, ‘Who?’ Linda went into hibernation.

It’s unclear when Linda last saw her family, but Hachey recalled that Steve saw Sebastian last March. He had his picture taken with a mask.

Neighbors were awakened by the sound of the alarm from the Robinsons’ home as officers forced their way inside.

“They had to break down two doors to get into the house,” Andover Police Chief Patrick Keefe said. They entered the house. The father, mother and 12-year-old son were found dead.

“The wounds were from bullets. We know the how, now we’re trying to figure out the why.

Janean and Andy Sullivan, ages 42 and 44, have a direct view of the Robinsons’ home and watched police go through the house with flashlights.

“We didn’t know if it was a robbery, but I knew something bad had happened,” Janean told the news outlet.

The family was described as “private” with Chief Keefe adding that there were no previous reports from the home.

Redfin records show the four-bedroom home last sold in 2003 for $1,338,000. Zillow revealed that the property’s value has since increased by more than $2 million.

An aerial shot of the house showed a playground and slide in the backyard and a basketball hoop in front of the garage.

Sebastian was identified as a sixth grader at St. John High School. Authorities announced his death on Thursday and canceled classes for all students.

“Our community is heartbroken by the tragic loss of Sebastian,” Edward Hardiman, principal of St. John’s, said at a news conference at the school. ‘Sebastian was a wonderful young man. He had a kind and gentle presence and was well liked by his teachers. Extraordinarily creative.

Hardiman added: “He was a really wonderful kid with a great nature.”

Andrew worked at Channel Building Co until he quit six months ago, the news outlet reported.

Linda’s former neighbor mourned her death and revealed the times they spent together when they were younger.

“I am speechless, I lived next door to Linda when she was a child, sometimes I would hide in her yard to play, and it saddens me to hear that her and her son’s life was taken so soon,” the neighbor wrote.