A man and a woman and their teenage children are dead in what police are treating as a double murder-suicide at an affluent suburban Perth home.<\/p>\n
The 50-year-old man, a 49-year-old female and two boys, aged 16 and 14, were found dead at their home in the suburb of Mosman Park on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
A cat and two dogs were also found dead at the double-storey home in one of the city’s wealthiest riverfront suburbs after a person who knew the family visited the property and became concerned.<\/p>\n
“Although this investigation is in its infancy, police are investigating this matter as a murder-suicide,” homicide detective Jessica Securo said.<\/p>\n
There was no weapon used in the incident, and police had no record of family violence matters involving the family, Detective Inspector Securo told reporters.<\/p>\n
Both children had experienced “significant health challenges” and the family had previously engaged with care services, she said.<\/p>\n
A cause of death is yet to be revealed, but a note was found at the home.<\/p>\n
At least one of the boys attended Christ Church Grammar School, one of Perth’s top private boys’ schools.<\/p>\n
Police have cordoned off the scene on Mott Close, where detectives and forensic officers in blue coveralls have been seen coming and going from the high-walled property.<\/p>\n
Neighbours have been tight-lipped, but a steady stream of onlookers has been spotted driving past the scene on an adjoining road in the normally quiet suburb.<\/p>\n
Support is being provided to first responders who arrived to what police described as a confronting scene.<\/p>\n
“This is a tragic and devastating incident where a family has lost their lives, and the impact will be felt by the entire community,” Det Insp Securo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and a woman and their teenage children are dead in what police are treating as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-259229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}