HOUSTON, Tx. (TNND) — Two adults and two children were found dead inside a Houston home on Monday, according to the Houston police department.
The Houston Police Department said officers responded to a welfare check at around 5:26 p.m. Monday. Police said a babysitter alerted officers, concerned that she hadn’t heard from the family.
Police identified the two adults and the two children as all family members and believe that the incident is a murder suicide. While the family’s identities have not yet been released, authorities said the woman was 39, and the kids were an 8-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy.
The suspect in the murder-suicide was said to be 52 years old.
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“Evidence on scene indicated the incident was a murder-suicide in which the male shot the three victims and then shot himself,” police authorities said.