Police identify 2 dead in suspected Waite Park murder-suicide
Police in Waite Park, Minnesota, identified the two adults who died in what authorities believe to be a murder-suicide on Saturday afternoon.
According to Waite Park police, officers were across the street from a home on the 200 block of 10th Avenue North on an unrelated call when they heard gunshots. Two children — a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old — ran from the home and informed police that a shooting took place.
Police then entered the home to find two people inside, who were both pronounced dead at the scene.
A preliminary autopsy identified the adults as 36-year-old Janet Vercruysse and 29-year-old Demico Elyea-Goss. Vercruysse's death was deemed to be a homicide. Elyea-Goss died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the autopsy results say.
According to Waite Park police, there were multiple firearms located at the scene.
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