A firefighting captain in California is charged with allegedly killing his girlfriend and her son, according to authorities.

On Aug. 21 around 9 p.m., deputies with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting in Cameron Park, a suburban community about 30 miles east of Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada foothills, according to a department news release .

Deputies arrived and found a woman and child with gunshot wounds. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the child was given immediate medical care and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A second child in the home was found safe.

Soon after, authorities named California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Capt. Darin McFarlin, 47, a person of interest in the case, according to

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