COLUMBIA, TN — A mother and four children have been found dead at a home in Tennesse in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
The bodies of four children - three girls and one boy whose ages ranged between 8 and 16 - and their mother were found Monday evening by a family member who called police.
I didn't find anywhere reporting exactly how the children died, but it is being reported that the mother died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police have not released the identities of the family but did say that the father was not at home at the time of the incident. They also added that the children were homeschooled and they had never received any calls to the home prior to this incident.
Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland said that there had been some "struggles" within the home, which I am guessing is information provided by the children's father. Rowland asked that people pray for the surviving family members, as well as the first responders.
"Of course, the first responders, we see gruesome scenes regularly, but this is not one that you see every day, so I'd ask our community to lift our first responders up in prayer as well," Rowland said.
SOURCE: WSMV
The bodies of four children - three girls and one boy whose ages ranged between 8 and 16 - and their mother were found Monday evening by a family member who called police.
I didn't find anywhere reporting exactly how the children died, but it is being reported that the mother died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police have not released the identities of the family but did say that the father was not at home at the time of the incident. They also added that the children were homeschooled and they had never received any calls to the home prior to this incident.
Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland said that there had been some "struggles" within the home, which I am guessing is information provided by the children's father. Rowland asked that people pray for the surviving family members, as well as the first responders.
"Of course, the first responders, we see gruesome scenes regularly, but this is not one that you see every day, so I'd ask our community to lift our first responders up in prayer as well," Rowland said.
SOURCE: WSMV