After church this morning… wife, daughter and I decided to stop by the FIL’s house in Zimmerman. Only a few blocks away… we get a call from them saying that there were half a dozen Sherburne Deputy vehicles at the house next door/behind them… and they were taping off the entire yard. Before that… the father of the family that lives at that house was driving away and stopped at a squad coming in… half a block from the house… and he was crying uncontrollably. We were there at about 10:30 this morning… and were there while the police brought in a preist. Sherrif Stanek was there too. The Deputies couldn’t say anything as the detectives, mobile command, etc weren’t even there yet.
Just got confirmation an hour ago… the mother and 2 kids are dead. Our hunch this morning was murder-suicide. We were there to witness some family members showing up at about 11am this morning… all knew something happened but didn’t know what.
What is this world coming to. Just heard Channel 5 got there an hour ago too…
Prayers to that father (if he wasn’t involved) and to the family as a whole. Those 2 kids were often playing in the yard and would come into my FIL’s yard when a ball went astray. Really sad.