MD Shooting Of 5 Was Murder-Suicide, Authorities Say: Report

ELK MILLS, MD — Authorities have identified the three children and two adults who were killed in what investigators are now calling a murder-suicide Friday at an Elk Mills home, according to a report.

The Cecil County Sheriff's Office was called to a home on Hebron Court in Elk Mills on Friday. When authorities arrived shortly before 9:20 a.m., they found the bodies of Marcus and Tara Milligan and their children, Teresa, 14; Nora, 11; and Finn, 8, The Associated Press reported.

According to police, the gunman called 911 after 9 a.m. to report that three children and a woman had been shot and were dead, the sheriff said in a statement.

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When deputies arrived, they found an unresponsive man inside the detached garage. Inside the home, they found four additional people dead. All appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds, the sheriff's statement said.

Authorities identified Marcus Milligan as the 911 caller who killed the other four people in the house before turning the gun on himself, a sheriff’s office spokesman told The AP. Police said a semi-automatic handgun was located near the man's body.

Autopsies performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore confirmed all five died from gunshot wounds, officials said.

The shooting is still under investigation. So far, authorities are unaware of a motive