Five people have been found dead at a North Carolina home after one of them apparently killed the others and then themselves, police said.
The bodies of two adults and three children were discovered at a property northeast of High Point city centre on Saturday morning, according to High Point police.
Authorities did not say how they died but the press release said the killings are being investigated as a ‘murder-suicide’.
There is no ongoing threat to the community, investigators said.
Authorities said that officers were called to the residential neighbourhood at just after 7am after reports of a man and woman ‘screaming for help’.
Police captain Matt Truitt told WFMY that that two adults had been seen ‘running down the street –screaming that they needed help”.
Police said that they came across the pair when they arrived at the scene and they stated to officers that they needed help.
Officers then forcefully entered the property — where they then found the bodies.The identities or ages of the victims have not been released.
One neighbor, who called the police after the two adults woke her up by ringing on her doorbell, told WFMY: ‘I was just like that’s never happened here in like for it to just happened in my house especially it’s like oh my God, what do I do?
‘I just decided to call 911 because I was like I’ll just leave it up to them because I don’t want to put my life on my family’s life at risk.’
Shellie Macmillian, who lives around the corner from the scene, said that her son saw police swarming the area just after 8am: ‘He’s asking, he was like what is going on? ‘I feel like maybe later on today, at the right time, I will let him know.
‘Because I do want him aware of what’s going on in our neighborhood so we are going to sit down and just let him know what happened here.’
