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A 37-year-old man, who shot dead his three children at their suburban Melbourne home on Saturday, lived in New Zealand for five years earlier this decade before moving to Victoria.
Rajesh "Eddie" Osborne, 37, shot his children Asia, 12, Jarius, 10, and seven-year-old Grace in their suburban Roxburgh Park home before taking his own life with a gun, police say.
Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper reported that Osborne lived in New Zealand from 1999 to 2004, before returning to work as a caravan builder in north Melbourne in 2004.
The killings have shocked the Melbourne community with the school's principal bewildered by the girls' slayings.
Roxburgh Park Primary principal Iain Garfirth says he prides himself on running a school alert to signs of trouble in the lives of his students.
Previous gut feelings sparking interventions to do with student welfare have been justified, he says.
But there were no signs of family problems with the Osbornes, he says.
Mr Garfirth and the children's classroom teachers agree the shocking violence came out of the blue.
They can't think of anything they should have done or noticed, he says.
"There was just no signs whatsoever that anything like this was going to happen to these children," he told ABC Radio on Monday.
"We know we did everything possible."
Asia's siblings were supposed be in class at Roxburgh Primary for the first day of term two on Monday.
Instead counsellors are helping classmates mourn.
Mr Garfirth said the Osbornes were all "bright, bubbly children", loved by many.
The school wants to remember them as they were and celebrate their lives while returning as quickly as it can to normality, he said.
Meanwhile, floral tributes have been laid outside the Roxburgh Park home.
On Monday morning, the quiet suburban yard where the children used to play showed few signs of the weekend's horrors.
Blinds were drawn on the home, and a charcoal-coloured late model sedan was parked out the front.
On the house's concrete porch lay a colourful pile of sunflowers and red roses, as well as cards in envelopes signalling that something had gone horribly wrong.
A lone pink teddy bear was also on the porch, a reminder of the young lives lost.
- AAP with NZ Herald staff
