Police say a woman and three children were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in a rental car in upstate New York.
Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner says the driver of a tow truck called to remove an overdue rental car from a driveway Sunday afternoon discovered the unresponsive woman and children inside and called 911.
Emergency responders determined the car’s occupants were dead. Buckner says authorities are treating the event as a murder-suicide.
A prosecutor says a burning charcoal grill caused the deaths of a woman and three children whose bodies were found in a car in upstate New York.
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick tells the Syracuse Post-Standard the apparent murder-suicide was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from charcoal burning in the car’s trunk. Fitzpatrick says the children were 3, 7 and 8 years old.
Syracuse police urged anyone with knowledge of the incident to contact authorities.
Charcoal caused death of woman, 3 children in car in upstate New York murder-suicide: prosecutor
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A prosecutor says a burning charcoal grill caused the deaths of a woman and three children whose bodies were found in a car in upstate New York. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick tells the Syracuse Post-Standard the apparent murder-suicide was caused by carbon m
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