BEAVERTON, Ore.
– Two young children and their
36-year-old father died Wednesday in an apparent homicide-suicide at an
apartment complex near Portland,
Oregon, authorities said.
Beaverton police
spokesman Mike Rowe told The Associated Press that officers responded to the
apartment around 4:30 p.m. after a female relative called saying three people
were possibly dead inside.
When police officers
entered the apartment, they initially thought, based on substantial gunshot
wounds, that all three people were dead, Rowe said.
As they backed out
of the apartment to preserve evidence and the crime scene, however, Rowe said
they heard rustling inside and then a single gunshot.
A tactical
negotiation team called to the scene then entered the unit and confirmed all
three people inside were deceased.
Rowe said the
children killed were an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy.
Police said they
don't believe there was any risk to the public.
"It was just a
very tragic thing that happened here today," Rowe said.
No other information
was immediately available.
Beaverton is about 8
miles west of Portland.
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