Family Gassed in Washington Heights

A horrifying murder-suicide story unfolded last night as neighbors realized their neighbors killed themselves and their two young children in their 549 West 123rd Street apartment. A police source said, "It's real ugly in there," and the family of four may have been in the apartment for days. Fred Wang apparently mailed a friend in Taiwan, saying that he would kill himself and his family because of a business deal gone bad; the friend contacted a relative who arrived at the apartment ot find the dead family. Wang's mother was found in another room, safe and unaware of what had happened. Firefighters found "six pots of burned charcoal in the bedroom," with windows and doors sealed to create more than enough carbon monoxide to kill them.