Comcast CEO Vows to Support Family of CNBC Executive Whose Kids Were Killed by Nanny

                                                             Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts

"We will do anything we can to support the family," he said in ending the quarterly earnings call of his company, which controls NBCUniversal.

CNN had reported that the nanny stabbed the children before slashing her own throat in the apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

"The father of the children was part of our CNBC family," Roberts said in wrapping up the earnings call of the cable company, which controls 51 percent of CNBC parent NBCUniversal. "So, I just wanted to say on behalf of all of us at CNBC and Comcast and NBCUniversal and many others around the nation how touched and sad we are by this unspeakable act. And we will do anything we can to support the family in [this] awful time."

CNN had identified the father as CNBC executive Kevin Krim. His title is listed as senior vp/general manager, CNBC Digital in online listings.

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