“There is nothing more tragic than the loss of young children,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said Friday in remarks reported by AP. According to the American press agency, the track of the triple murder followed by a suicide is privileged, after the discovery of the bodies of three young children in a lake of Minnesota, in the county of Ramsey. A woman, their mother, was also discovered dead and submerged. She would be at the origin of the drama, according to the first elements of the investigation.
“The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating this incident as a possible triple murder-suicide,” a news release said.
Father’s body found dead
A few hours earlier, the body of the children’s father had been discovered in a place gathering several mobile homes in Maplewood, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, subsequently leading the police to this lake. If we do not know the identity of this family, we know that the little victims are two boys and a girl and that all three were under six years old. After the death of the father, in circumstances that remain to be clarified, the mother would have left in the car with her three children, reports AP, citing Lt. Joe Steiner of the Maplewood police.
This is where the search began, but the police arrived too late at the scene of the tragedy. In the afternoon, they found the siblings’ shoes on the shores of the lake. Then, after almost four hours of searching, they discovered the first child’s body, then a second and their mother. It took them another 11 hours of searching to find the fourth victim. An autopsy is in progress.