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(Scroll down for video) A man shockingly killed his little son and then killed himself during a court ordered supervised visitation session, according to police reports in New Hampshire.
Manchester Police said that a man shot his 9-year-old son to death and then killed himself at a YWCA on Sunday morning.
Police received an initial call at 10:00 am that a gunman was inside the building of New Hampshire YWCA in Manchester, Police Lieutenant Maureen Tessier said. More people called police saying that they are hearing shots being fired.
When officers arrived, they searched the building and found two bodies in a supervised parental visitation room at the center, according to the office of the New Hampshire attorney general.
New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin identified the father as Muni Savyon, 54, and his son as Joshua Savyon, 9.
Sayvon shot his son with a gun halfway through a one-hour supervised visitation session at the YWCA, and turned the gun on himself, according to the attorney general's office.
The supervisor fled the room unharmed.
Tessier said police searched the building and found no more threats and no one injured.
Rabbi Levi Krinsky of the Chabad Lubavitch Manchester synagogue said that Savyon and his son "came to many of the events we do." Savyon had been part of the Orthodox Jewish congregation in Manchester for more than five years, and he considered Savyon a friend.
He was "very calm and very quiet," Krinsky said. He said Savyon just returned from a trip to Israel. He visited Israel in order to attend his brother’s funeral after unexpectedly dying of a heart attack.
"He was very upset and depressed," Krinsky said. "I did not know he was capable of that. If I did, I would have stepped in," he said.
Detectives from the Greater Manchester Police have discovered that Savyon made threats in the past "to kill the mother of his son and his son."
Krinsky said Savyon and his wife were separated. Joshua was their only child, and both parents used the services offered by the YWCA, Krinsky said.
The national YWCA said on Twitter that it was aware of the incident.