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Five people are found dead in North Carolina murder-suicide – including three children – after neighbors heard people ‘screaming’ down the street after ‘escaping’ from the tragic scene

  • High Point Police Capt. Matt Truitt said that there were two adults ‘running down the street, screaming that they needed help’ in North Carolina
  • Police found five dead bodies in the home – two adults, and three children 
  • Authorities have not released the ages or names of the deceased

Five people have been found dead – including three children – at a residential home in North Carolina in what police believe was a murder-suicide. 

Police found the bodies at the home in High Point at 7am on Saturday morning – after responding to reports of two people screaming for help while running down the street.

High Point Police Capt. Matt Truitt told local news that there were two adults, who haven’t been identified, ‘running down the street … screaming that they needed help,’ minutes before the five bodies were uncovered. 

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Authorities then searched 2734 Mossy Meadow Drive and found two adults and three children deceased. It’s unclear how old the children were. 

Police found five people dead at the home in North Carolina just after 7am on Saturday

Police found five people dead at the home in North Carolina just after 7am on Saturday

Investigators believe that the tragedy was a murder suicide

Investigators believe that the tragedy was a murder suicide

 

The ‘screaming’ pair – who are believed to have also been in the property but escaped the tragedy – have been questioned and released by investigators. 

Police confirmed that there is no other threat to the community. 

Truitt said: ‘Officers did force entry into the home and went through the home in what we call a protective sweep, to check for victims and anyone in the home. 

‘They ended up locating three juveniles that were deceased and two adults that were deceased.’ 

According to Truitt, that there were in fact four adults at the house when the ordeal occurred – however two escaped and then attempted to get help. 

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? 

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‘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.’

Authorities searched 2734 Mossy Meadow Drive (pictured) and found two adults and three children deceased. It's unclear how old the children were

Authorities searched 2734 Mossy Meadow Drive (pictured) and found two adults and three children deceased. It’s unclear how old the children were

According to High Point Police Capt. Matt Truitt, that there were in fact four adults at the house when the ordeal occurred - however two escaped and then attempted to get help

According to High Point Police Capt. Matt Truitt, that there were in fact four adults at the house when the ordeal occurred – however two escaped and then attempted to get help

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