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

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Officers responded to a house in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St. Paul at around 3:00 PM, where they found three people with apparent gunshot wounds, St. Paul police said in a press release.
Two people, an adult woman in her thirties and a woman in her early teens, were pronounced dead on the spot. A third person – a boy between 8 and 12 years old – was taken to hospital where he later died of his injuries, said St. Paul Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Ernster told reporters.

‘It’s difficult because children died. It’s also difficult because one of our agents was here an hour before this call. He was called here by a concerned family member from out of state who wanted us to see the welfare of the alleged victim in this home, ‘said Ernster.

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

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

Officials are investigating who was on the scene at the time of the shooting, as well as the circumstances surrounding the triple murder.

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

“This is a senseless tragedy that has left us all heartbroken – as police officers, as people, as members of the community,” St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell said in a statement. Moments like these are difficult and painful.

Axtell added that “detectives and officers will continue to work around the clock until they find the person responsible.”

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