A 63-year-old Orosi man opened fire early Monday on his two daughters, killing one and critically wounding the other, before turning the gun on himself, Tulare County authorities said. 
 
 Anthony Alvarez appears to have died of self-inflicted gunshots, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reported. 
 
 Jennifer Kimble, 37, mother of three children, died after being hit by several bullets, deputies said. She was known in Orosi as a clerk in food services at Palm Elementary School, one street away from where the shooting occurred. 
 
 Valerie Alvarez, 33, was critically wounded. She was taken to a Fresno hospital where she is in critical condition, the Sheriff's Department said. No further details were available. 
 
 The three children -- Anthony Alvarez's grandchildren -- were unharmed, authorities said. They include two boys, 13 and 11, and an 8-year-old girl. 
 
 The girl called the Sheriff's Department at 4:39 a.m. Monday to report the shooting, authorities said. The children were removed from the home and reunited with their father, who was at work when the shooting occurred, deputies said. 
 
 Authorities did not release any more details about the circumstances of the early-morning shooting. They say investigation is continuing. 
 
 Kimble's death is a shock, said Brenda Lightfoot-Handy, director of food services at Palm Elementary in Orosi. 
 
 Lightfoot-Handy hired Kimble a few years ago. She said Kimble was a dedicated, caring worker who handled the "point of sale" in food services. 
 
 Lightfoot-Handy said: "I'm just as surprised as anyone else right now. I'm just trying to process this." 
 
 
 
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 A man shot and killed his adult daughter in a Central California home with her three young children inside, also shooting and wounding another daughter before apparently turning the gun on himself, authorities said. 
 
 Jennifer Kimble, 37, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds by deputies responding to a call from her 8-year-old daughter, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Kimble's two sons, ages 13 and 11, were also in the house, but all three kids were unharmed. 
 
 Deputies also found Kimble's father Anthony Alvarez, 63, dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. 
 
 Another daughter, Valerie Alvarez, 33, had at least one gunshot wound and was flown to a Fresno hospital in critical condition. She was stabilized and having surgery, sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Chris Douglass said. 
 
 The investigation was continuing and autopsies were planned later in the week. 
 
 Douglass said investigators did not doubt that Anthony Alvarez had shot his daughters and turned the gun on himself. 
 
 "It's a very cut-and-dried case," she said. 
 
 No information was released on a possible motive. 
 
 The children were reunited with their father, who was at work during the shootings, authorities said. 
 
 The shootings occurred on a residential street of small stucco homes in Orosi, a town of about 9,000 people in California's Central Valley about 20 miles southeast of Fresno. 
 
 Kimble worked in the cafeteria of an elementary school one street over from the house and was a dedicated, caring employee, according to her supervisor there. 
 
 "I'm just as surprised as anyone else right now," Brenda Lightfoot-Handy, director of food services at Palm Elementary, told the Fresno Bee. "I'm just trying to process this.
– An 8-year-old girl dialed 911 at 4:39am yesterday to report a shooting, and the story gets worse from there. Police say the child's 63-year-old grandfather, Anthony Alvarez, shot his two adult daughters before taking his own life—while the girl and her two brothers were in the Orosi, Calif., home, the Fresno Bee reports. Jennifer Kimble, 37, was killed after being struck by several bullets; she was mom to the young girl and the 11- and 13-year-old boys. Kimble's sister, Valerie Alvarez, 33, is at a hospital in critical condition. The children, who were not harmed, are now with their father, who was working when the shooting occurred. The AP notes that there's no word on motive yet, but police have little doubt about the series of events: "It's a very cut-and-dried case," says a sheriff's rep.