A military family of Six were found dead on Thursday at a home in San Antonio, Texas, in what appeared to be a case of murder-suicide, CNN reports
Officers of the Police department came across two adults and four children dead in an SUV in the home’s garage, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said at a news conference Thursday night.
The family is yet to be identified at the time of this report, but McManus said the adults, a man and a woman, were in their mid-to-late-30s. The children were between the ages of 11 months old to 4 years old.
Police on the scene in San Antonio, Texas, where two adults and four children were found dead in an SUV in a garage.
”The incident does not appear to be an accident,” the police chief said. “It appeared to be a suicide,” McManus said, and the cause of death “appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning.”
Officers arrived at the home Thursday morning to perform a welfare check at the request of the man’s workplace. Officials there said he hadn’t checked in for work like he normally would, since he was working from home.
When police opened the front door, they smelled noxious fumes, McManus said, and retreated.
Police were eventually able to gain entry into the garage, where they found the family dead along with two cats in a basket in the front seat.
“There’s no words to describe that,” McManus said.
The police chief said the family was connected to the military, but did not say which branch. Neighbors told police they never saw any family members, who had just moved to the area in January.