The Covina massacre was a mass murder carried out on Christmas Eve, 2008 by a disgruntled ex-husband in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, wearing a Santa suit, entered a property belonging to his former in-laws in Covina and killed nine people by shooting or by arson from the fire he started.

He had with him multiple 9mm SIG Sauer handguns and a large gift-wrapped package containing a rolling air compressor converted to spray racing fuel.

[4][2] Pardo had also made plans to visit a friend in Iowa and had purchased a Christmas morning plane ticket from Los Angeles to Moline, Illinois.

[4][6] After setting the home on fire, Pardo changed out of the Santa suit and drove to his brother's house in Sylmar, where he was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

After the couple wed in January 2006, their marriage quickly fell apart within the first year because Pardo refused to open a joint bank account with Sylvia; he also expected his wife to use her own finances to take care of her own three children.

Pardo complained to the court that Sylvia was living with her parents, not paying rent, and had spent lavishly on a luxury car, gambling trips to Las Vegas, meals at expensive restaurants, massages, and golf lessons.