The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an apparent triple murder-suicide in Daphne in an otherwise quiet and safe neighborhood, where the sheriff says people are proud to live.
Sheriff Anthony Lowery said it all started at 3:30 a.m. The sheriff’s office received a call for a welfare check for a home on Sable Court. Deputies knocked, but no one came to the door, so they entered the house and found four gunshot victims.
The family included two children – an 11-year-old female and a 15-year-old male. The sheriff’s office had to call the Baldwin County Public School system early Thursday to deliver the news. Lowery said the school system will provide counselors for students at the schools where the children attended.
However, as deputies were inside the house, he said the children’s cell phones began ringing.
"So, you know that’s their friends trying to figure out what’s going on,” Lowery said.
Lowery said there were no signs of a domestic violence issue prior to the shooting. The sheriff’s office will investigate the deaths thoroughly, just as they would a “who-done-it” case, Lowery added. Still, he said, investigators may never get all of the answers because the suspect is dead.
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