Couple Dead In Murder-Suicide; 3 Children Found Safe In Montco

PHILADELPHIA — A woman and man are dead, but their young triplets are safe, after a murder-suicide incident that played out in Philadelphia and Montgomery County.

Maisah Larkin, 39, was shot and killed in her home on the 1900 block of Haines Street in Philadelphia Sunday evening, Action News reports.

When authorities came to her home, they found her dead and her three children, all 2 years old, missing.

Later, the children's father, 37-year-old Stanley Baptiste, seen driving a Lincoln Navigator in Lansdale, where police tried to stop him.

According to Fox 29, Baptiste stopped the vehicle and shot himself.

The triplets were not in the vehicle when Baptiste took his own life, NBC10 reports.

Pennsylvania State Police issued an alert for the missing children, but Monday morning said they had been located at a Lansdale home.

Authorities are still investigating the deaths.