Man in custody after 3 found dead in Coon Rapids home
Law enforcement officials have a man in custody after three people were found dead at a home in Coon Rapids.
Tierney Peters, with the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, said dispatchers received an open-line call at around 12:26 p.m. Friday.
While nobody talked to dispatchers, they heard “sounds of a disturbance” and sent several agencies to the home near Springbrook Drive and 94th Avenue Northwest.
When officers arrived, they found three people — two males and a female — already dead.
Two juveniles in the home were uninjured, officials say.
Peters says information is still limited since the investigation just started but no arrests have been made at this time and the sheriff’s office hasn’t issued any public alerts for a suspect. The victims’ relationship and cause of death is also still under investigation.
Audio from Broadcastify, a live broadcasting service, captured officials talking about hearing the sound of yelling and screaming. Additional audio said, “I have a man down on the ground, I’ve got blood… We have gun casings on the ground… We have multiple people down and we do not have a weapon on scene yet.”
“[It’s] shocking, shocking … it’s not something you hear every day,” Shamsadin Dahir, who lives in the neighborhood, said.
“I cannot believe it. I’ve been here about 50 years living. It’s hard for me to believe, it’s a serious shock, actually,” said another neighbor named Wanda. “I saw police cars, then I saw a man running down the road with a big rifle. Thought ‘Oh God, what is happening now?’ So, it is scary.”
Dahir said he was driving out of the neighborhood when law enforcement was first responding to the home.
“I just saw cops, guns drawn, [and they were] ready to go inside the house,” he adds.
Now, Dahir says he’ll be thinking about the families involved.
“That’s very tragic, very tragic. Once you hear three bodies, that’s very sad… Prayers go out to their families and those two kids who were found inside alive, luckily, they came out alive,” Dahir said. “I hope [investigators] find who did this and [it] comes to an end because it’s a very quiet neighborhood.”
Law enforcement is hoping for the same.
“[We] have many, many detectives on the case looking into all aspects,” Peters said, adding: “We’re going to continue doing that in order to, you know, provide the truth of the situation to these deceased people’s loved ones.”
No other information has been released at this time.