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Mother, Three Children Die In Apparent Murder-Suicide

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By HERNANDO TODAY STAFF

Published: November 1, 2008

FLORAL CITY - Greg Maslowski called 911 and told them to come quick. He had just found his stepdaughter and her three boys, all younger than 4, dead about 10 a.m. today.

"I'm outside the house. I'm not going in the house," he told a 911 operator as his wife screamed and shrieked in the background. "I'm not even going in the room."

As he spoke with the operator, Vickie Maslowski cried, "Please God. No, no, no."

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office is treating the deaths at 4983 E. Stoer Lane in Floral City as a murder-suicide, said Heather Yates, a sheriff's spokeswoman, who added that a firearm was involved.

The woman, 23-year-old Alicia Chomic, was found in a bedroom with her sons, Anthony Michael Lietz Jr., 15 months; Damian Michael Lietz, 2; and Thomas Anthony Goldsmith Jr., 3. Deputies say the four likely died sometime Thursday night.

Citrus County records list Greg and Vickie Maslowski as the owners of the property, identified as a mobile home.

The Maslowskis were taken to an area hospital, suffering from distress after discovering the bodies, deputies say. They weren't there when the deaths occurred, according to deputies.
Deputies say the woman had moved back to the home of her mother and stepfather with the children in the past week, possibly from Pasco County.

Chomic's mother and stepfather came home Thursday night and noticed that the door to the room Chomic shared with her sons was closed. At the time, that did not seem unusual.

This morning, Chomic's mother went into the room and found the bodies.

"The problem is, is I've got three people that look like they're passed away in my ... three children," Greg Maslowski, 45, told the 911 operator. "My wife's going crazy."

Investigators have contacted the boys' fathers and said they had not found a suicide note or letter.

Reached yesterday, Greg Maslowski declined to comment.

Neighbor Tammy Shelton said she didn't hear gunshots and that her three dogs - who normally respond to anything, even car lights - didn't appear to hear anything either.

Hernando Today reporter Kyle Martin, Tampa Tribune reporter Josh Poltilove and News Channel 8 reporter Natalie Shepherd contributed to this report.

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