Sheriff’s Office names father in deaths of his 2 children near Ukiah

MENDOCINO CO., 10/15/26 — The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday named Alexander Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 44, of Ukiah as the father investigators believe killed his two children and then himself Oct. 9 at a home on Old River Road near Ukiah.

Autopsies on all three were done Wednesday. Gonzalez-Gonzalez’s preliminary cause of death was asphyxia due to hanging, and the manner of death was suicide, Capt. Quincy Cromer wrote in an updated release.