LOS ANGELES , California ( CNN ) -- The former parents-in-law of a man accused of killing nine people at a Christmas Eve party were among the remains of six people identified Saturday by the Los Angeles County Coroner 's Office . Bruce Jeffrey Pardo went on a shooting rampage in a Los Angeles suburb Christmas Eve , police say . Three other people remain listed as `` missing '' and `` unidentified '' because their remains were too badly burned in the raging house fire that followed the shootings . Police said Bruce Jeffrey Pardo committed suicide after he went on a shooting rampage dressed as Santa Claus at the party in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina . He targeted his ex-wife , 43-year-old Sylvia Pardo , and her family , police said . He then started the fire , police said . Authorities said Pardo also may have planned to kill his wife 's divorce attorney as well as his own mother , who had planned to attend the party but did not because she was ill . Killed at the party , according to the coroner 's office , were : . The remaining three people known to be at the party -- Sylvia Pardo ; her brother James `` Junior '' Ortega , 52 ; and Michael Ortiz , 17 , Sylvia Pardo 's nephew and Alicia Ortiz 's son -- remain listed as `` unidentified '' in coroner 's files and `` missing '' in police files . `` We have three unidentified bodies that came out of that location , '' said Lt. Larry Dietz of the coroner 's office . Authorities previously said they were relying on dental records to identify the bodies . After the shootings , Bruce Pardo left a rental car and a gasoline canister outside the home of attorney Scott Nord , who represented Sylvia Pardo in her divorce , police said . Investigators suspect that Bruce Pardo planned a similar attack at Nord 's home . Authorities described the Pardos ' divorce , which was finalized December 18 , as `` contentious . '' Another rented car that Bruce Pardo used to flee the scene was found booby-trapped after the shootings . It burned as a Covina police bomb squad attempted to disconnect an explosive device in it . Police said Bruce Pardo had an uneasy relationship with his mother , who had sided with Sylvia Pardo in the divorce . The shootings and fire left 10 children orphaned . Three others lost one parent . An Ortega Family Fund has been set up at Nord 's law offices . CNN 's Irving Last contributed to this report .
Six of nine bodies found in house identified by coroner . Remains of house burned too badly to identify . Santa shooter . Don Pardo 's name still officially ` ` . ''