(Mt. Airy, MD) – Maryland State Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four people found inside a Frederick County home last night.
The victims include an adult male, an adult female, a female child and a male child. Positive identification of the victims has not been made at this time. It is possible the four were members of the same family.
The bodies of the victims have been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore. Autopsies may be conducted later today. Investigators hope to obtain positive identifications and learn the cause and manner of death for each victim from forensic examiners.
At about 5:40 p.m. yesterday, Maryland State Police assigned to the Mt. Airy Resident Trooper Program responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding suspicious circumstances at a single family home in the 300-block of Contour Road in Mt. Airy. The call came from a friend of the family at that address. He had gone to the home because he had not heard from the family and was concerned about their welfare. Receiving no answer at the door, or to repeated phone calls, he went to the rear of the home, looked in a window and saw a body.
Troopers entered the home and found all four victims, who had each sustained obvious trauma. Troopers quickly searched the home and found no one else there. EMS personnel from the Mt. |
