St. Paul, Minnesota, triple homicide: three people, including a child and a teenager, killed in Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota, triple homicide: three people, including a child and a teenager, killed in Minnesota

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Police officers responded to a home in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood at around 3 pm, where they found three people suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, the St. Paul Police Department said in a press release.
Two individuals, an adult woman in her 30s and a woman in her early teens, were pronounced dead at the scene. A third person – a boy between 8 and 12 years old – was taken to the hospital where he later died of his injuries, St. Paul’s Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Ernster told reporters.

“It is difficult because children died. It is also difficult because one of our policemen was here an hour before this call. He was called here by a concerned family member from outside the state who wanted us to check on the alleged victim’s well-being in this house,” said Ernster.

Five people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in the

“Our policeman came here, spoke to her at the door and explained while he was there, and she looked at him and said, ‘I’m fine, tell them I’m fine’.”

The police visited the house again before Saturday for a welfare check, after receiving a call from someone concerned that the woman was in danger and “possibly involved in a domestic situation,” added Ernster.

Authorities are investigating who was on the scene at the time of the shooting, as well as the circumstances of the triple homicide.

The Ramsey County coroner will work to identify the victims and determine the cause of death, police said.

“This is a meaningless tragedy that left us heartbroken – as police, as human beings, as members of the community,” St. Paul’s police chief, Todd Axtell, said in a statement. “Times like this are difficult and painful.”

Axtell added that “investigators and officers will continue to work non-stop until they find the person responsible.”

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