ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A St. Paul woman who told police she was fine after a relative asked for a welfare check Saturday was shot to death an hour later along with a teen girl and young boy, police said.
Mike Ernster, spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department, said when an officer checked on the woman she looked at him and said, “I’m OK. Tell them I’m OK.” An hour later first responders found the woman and the girl dead from gunshot wounds. The boy died at a hospital a few hours later.
The shootings happened in a multi unit building in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St. Paul.
“Every homicide is hard, but this is especially a tough one,” Ernster said. “It’s tough because it involves kids and we had an officer at the home an hour before this call.”
No arrests have been made. Authorities are reviewing evidence and seeking witnesses.
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