Texas teen finds parents dead of apparent murder-suicide, sheriff says – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

A lady known as 911 early Wednesday saying her teenage grandson discovered his dad and mom deceased inside their house, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Workplace says.

In accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, the lady known as 911 at about 7:42 a.m. and mentioned her 16-year-old grandson got here to her house and mentioned each of his dad and mom have been lifeless.

Deputies with the sheriff’s workplace and medical personnel went to the boy’s Midlothian house and located two individuals deceased inside.

The sheriff’s workplace mentioned each individuals appeared to have been shot and that their deaths have been being investigated as a attainable murder-suicide.

“At the moment, the sheriff’s workplace doesn’t imagine there may be any hazard to the encircling group,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in an announcement. “Our ideas and prayers are with the household as they cope with this tragedy.”

The sheriff’s workplace didn’t say when the killings came about or who else could have been inside the house on the time the shootings occurred.

Investigators with the sheriff’s workplace mentioned they have been engaged on figuring out the motive and that data was restricted with the investigation in its early levels.

The identities of the victims will probably be publicly launched after their households have been notified of their deaths.