3 Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide in Florida Home

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Three folks — a girl, her son and the lady’s boyfriend — have been all discovered useless in a house in St. Cloud, Fla., in an obvious murder-suicide, in keeping with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.

Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez mentioned in a press conference Tuesday evening that the sheriff’s workplace acquired a name from the grandmother of one of many victims at 2:30 p.m. She advised authorities that she had gone to her grandson’s house to examine on him as a result of she hadn’t heard from him in some time, however upon coming into his house, she discovered him useless.

Lopez mentioned officers responded to the scene and located two extra useless our bodies, the boy’s mom and her boyfriend, whose identities haven’t but been launched. He recognized the lady’s grandson as an grownup in his early 20s and mentioned the mom and boyfriend seemed to be in their mid 30s to late 40s.

After a preliminary investigation, he mentioned police consider that the mom’s boyfriend was the one who carried out the murders.

“At this time we do suspect it’s him based on what’s on scene,” mentioned Lopez. “However, just because [of the] the conditions of the bodies, we want to make sure that we’re waiting on a [medical examiner] to positively identify them and give an exact cause of death.”

Lopez mentioned {that a} gun was not discovered on the scene, and he didn’t give another particulars about how the victims might have died. He mentioned it was additionally unclear how lengthy the household had been deceased earlier than authorities acquired the decision.

He added that there was no historical past of home violence on the residence and the boyfriend had been residing in the house, which was in a cellular house park, with the mom and son since August.

Lopez referred to as the state of affairs a “horrific tragedy” and mentioned that the grandmother who made the invention was “very upset and distraught.”

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Juan Acosta, a president of the HomeHouse owners Association in the realm, advised Orlando TV station WKMG-TV that the crime in the realm was stunning.

“Not expecting stuff like that happen here because this is a family place,” Acosta mentioned. “A bunch of kids you can see here playing everyday.”