Life time trouble maker, Gary Wayne Lindsey [photo], took his own life and killing four children and shooting a police officer in the head on Sunday in Orlando, Fla

For nearly the whole of a day, authorities in Orlando struggled to engage hostage taker Gary Wayne Lindsey in meaningful dialogue in a bid to save the four minor children he had with him while barricaded in their mother’s apartment.
However, for most or all of the 21-hour standoff between police and  Lindsey Jr., it’s likely the four children authorities believed he was holding as hostages were already dead, the Orlando Police Department revealed Thursday.

Victims: 1-year-old Dove Lindsey [left], Irayan Pluth, [second], Lillia Pluth, [third], and Aidan Lindsey, 6, lright], were killed Gary Wayne Lindsey during Orlando standoff.

In a statement, the agency said its homicide detectives now believe the 11-year-old Irayan Pluth and her siblings Lillia Pluth, 10, as well as the killer’s two children, Aidan Lindsey, 6, and Dove Lindsey, 1 were already dead. Killed “either shortly before or shortly after” Lindsey exchanged gunfire with police about midnight Monday, Officer Kevin Valencia  was severely injured by Lindsey as he responded to the report of domestic violence.
Prior to the standoff that dragged on until that evening.
Police sources believe the Four children killed during a 21-hour standoff in Florida were killed in their sleep.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that they were found wearing the same bedtime clothes in which their mother, 31-year-old mother Ciara López, had dressed them Sunday night, when she called police to report she had been battered by Lindsey, authorities said Thursday.
She managed to escape, but the bodies of the children and Lindsey were found Monday night.
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Lindsey had taken his own life after killing the children and seriously wounding Orlando Police Officer Kevin Valencia, who is in a coma.

Lopez told the Sentinel that she wanted her kids to be remembered as “loving, wonderful children, full of life.”
“I am heartbroken and feel completely alone,” she said through a family representative to the newspaper.