Mother Who Killed Children and Committed Suicide in Boston Was Brown Grad and Former Projo Reporter

Mother Who Killed Children and Committed Suicide in Boston Was Brown Grad and Former Projo Reporter

The Boston woman who pushed her two young children from the top of a parking garage and then killed herself in a double murder-suicide has been identified as Erin Pascal. She was a graduate of Brown University and a former Providence Journal reporter.

Pascal reportedly killed her two young children; four-year-old daughter Allison and 16-month-old Andrew.

Boston Police report she threw the kids off the nine-story parking structure before plunging to her own death on Christmas Day. 

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'Today is an extremely sad day as we begin to put together the pieces of a tragedy that took place yesterday, on Christmas," Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said on Thursday.  

Pascal was the director of corporate social responsibility and community relations at Sanofi Genzyme, a biotechnology company based in nearby Cambridge. 

Earlier in her career, she was a reporter with the Providence Journal from 2001 to 2003.

As a reporter for the Providence Journal, she worked on a two-year contract. Those workers were unceremonial known as "BICs" -- reporters who were disposable like a BIC pen. 

She worked out of the South County office -- when the Providence Journal still had regional offices. 

She wrote about everything from town council meetings and local events.

One story covered abuse. She wrote under her maiden name, Emlock.

Man arrested after argument turns violent

ERIN EMLOCK, Journal Staff Writer        

NORTH KINGSTOWN - A North Kingstown man with a record of domestic violence was arrested Tuesday night after his former wife told the police he had beaten her with a telephone and a police scanner.

Robert Casey, 37, of B 13 Krzak Rd., was charged with assaulting Sharon Roberts after she told the police that he had become violent during an argument on Monday night. During the argument, Casey allegedly punched Roberts in addition to beating her with the phone and scanner, according to the police report. Roberts, 43, of D 1 Krzak Rd., did not immediately call the police after the incident. When she met with the police Tuesday, she told them she had been too frightened of Casey to contact them.  The police observed bruises on Roberts' head, wrist and arm when they interviewed her at her home.        Casey was charged with three felonies and three misdemeanors: two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon; one count of simple assault that becomes a felony upon a third conviction under the state's domestic violence law; disorderly conduct, malicious mischief and relinquishing of a phone. He was brought before bail commissioner Midas Savari Tuesday night, and released on $300 cash bail. Casey was ordered not to have any contact with Roberts.