A 63-year-old father stabbed his 17-year-old twins to death before taking his own life in a murder-suicide in Orlando, Florida, police said. Ivan Montiel Roa killed his two children, Carlo and Melanie Montiel Infantino, at their apartment.
Bodies found after wellness check
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said officers found the teens' bodies bloodied from multiple stab wounds in the living room of the apartment. Roa was found dead inside the master bedroom.
A worried neighbour called 911 for a wellness check on the household, saying they had not seen the family in about a week. Authorities stated: “At this time, detectives believe Ivan murdered Carlo and Melanie and then committed suicide.”
Family background
Police did not state when they thought the killings occurred, nor how the father killed himself. Florida Representative Rita Harris, who lives near the scene, stated: “There are no words that can make sense of a loss like this. I am also thinking of the first responders and law enforcement officers who carry the weight of what they encounter in service to our community.”
Public records revealed the teens’ mother – Montiel Roa’s wife – died in June this year. According to the woman’s obituary, the family were from Venezuela.
Social media posts
Montiel Roa’s Facebook showed he was a realtor and also had a construction business, which was dissolved in September. He reposted conspiracy theories and posts about a “new world order” on the platform. In a December 2025 post he wrote: “Introduce a little anarchy, alter the established order and everything turns into chaos. I am an agent of chaos.” The post seemingly quoted a line from the 2008 film “The Dark Knight”.
Separate Texas case
The development comes after another murder-suicide in Texas, where a mother shot her four-year-old daughter to death before turning the gun on herself. Cibelle Savella, 35, was supposed to hand over her daughter, Vivian, to her ex-husband, Aaron Savella, on Tuesday night, but instead went home and shot the youngster dead before the handover, then killed herself.
Houston Police Lieutenant Larry Crowson said: “There was a custody hearing earlier today that didn’t go well for the mother. She came home, shot her 4-year-old, and then shot herself.” The girl died immediately, but the mother was alive when emergency teams responded to calls from neighbours. She was hospitalised but died a day later.
