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Murder-suicide in Duluth, Minnesota leaves 5 dead: police

The victims are a 47-year-old woman, a 45-year-old woman and two teenagers. Police said the suspect apparently shot himself.

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At least five people, including two teenagers, have died after shootings in two Minnesota homes in what police are calling a quadruple murder-suicide.

Duluth police reported that around 2:10 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to a home on Tacony Street in Duluth, west of Lake Superior, for a welfare check and found two people dead.

The victims, a 47-year-old woman and a teenager, apparently died of gunshot wounds, police said.

A suspect was identified and officers set up a cordon around his home in the 4400 block of West 6th Street, about a mile northeast of the first shooting scene.

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Shortly afterwards, officers entered the house and found a 45-year-old woman and another teenager dead, apparently from gunshot wounds.

The suspect, a 46-year-old man, was also found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police did not release the names of the victims but said all five people knew each other.

Their identities will be revealed once their next of kin are notified, police said.

“No current threat to the community”

The case was still under investigation on Friday.

“There is no threat to the community at this time,” police wrote in a news release after the shooting. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the victims involved in this tragic event.

USA TODAY has reached out to Duluth police.

A press conference was planned for Friday.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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