4 members of a household, together with two youngsters, have been discovered lifeless in a New Hampshire house and police are investigating the incident as a attainable murder-suicide, authorities stated.
A toddler was discovered alive and unhurt within the house in Madbury, a small city within the state’s Seacoast area northwest of Portsmouth, in keeping with a press release from the New Hampshire Lawyer Normal’s Workplace.
Law enforcement officials found the our bodies of two adults and two youngsters round 8:21 p.m. on Monday after a 911 caller reported that a number of folks have been deceased inside the house, in keeping with the assertion.
4 folks, together with two youngsters, have been discovered, Aug. 18, 2025, lifeless from gunshot wounds in a house in Madbury, New Hampshire, police stated. (Getty Photos)
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“Every of the deceased relations seems to have suffered gunshot wounds, and have been pronounced lifeless on the scene,” in keeping with the assertion from authorities.
The names of the deceased relations are being withheld by regulation enforcement pending autopsies scheduled for Wednesday by the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner and notification of subsequent of kin, officers stated.
Investigators stated there is no such thing as a recognized menace to the general public.
“I believe investigators nonetheless have in all probability extra questions than they’ve solutions,” Assistant Lawyer Normal Ben Agati informed ABC affiliate station WMUR in Manchester, New Hampshire. “One of many greatest questions they’ve proper now could be motive. Why? And I believe that is in all probability one of many harder issues that they’re making an attempt to know, to grasp how this got here to be and to have the ability to be extra definitive and to grasp what the sequence of occasions was like inside that home.”
