This is tragedy may seem all too familiar,

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but this suicide method is hardly ever heard of in New York.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/cri ... -breaking2

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/ ... 6707c.html

The strange part of the story is that the children attended a very expensive school that cost about $25000 per student. Not only that, the father is a Columbia University graduate.

"Wang, 42, was up-to-date on his steep payments at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's, the Episcopal school where tuition is $25,000 per child, said Principal Virginia Connor"