Police are investigating the deaths of four people found shot to death in Anne Arundel County Sunday morning in an apparent murder-suicide. Anne Arundel police were called to 607 Wood St. in Brooklyn Park about 9 a.m. Sunday after a woman said she had received a “despondent” text message from her adult son who lived there, according to Lt. J.D. Batten. While speaking with the woman, police heard a gunshot from inside the house. Inside they found an adult male, an adult female and twins — a boy and a girl — believed to be about 15.
Police believe the man shot the other three people before killing himself, said Batten. They would not confirm that the four were a family, but all four lived together at the house on Wood Street.
Residents in the Baltimore-area neighborhood said they were surprised to learn of the shooting.
Neighbor Jody Eckmeyer said the man was a good-humored truck driver and the woman was a nurse. The teens generally stayed out of trouble, she said.
“They were very well-respected,” Eckmeyer said.
Another neighbor, Thomas Slade, said the man recently got a new job. Slade said he had never heard him mention problems at home.
The shooting was the second apparent murder-suicide involving Maryland residents in less than a week. On Tuesday, 54-year-old Margaret Jensvold, a psychiatrist, killed her 13-year-old son before killing herself in their Kensington home, Montgomery County police reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
