Three were fatally stabbed, including a child, at a daycare facility on the 200 Block of Tyler Avenue North in Hopkins, Minnesota , on Wednesday morning.
There is a massive police presence in the area attending to the scene, with local Fox affiliate Fox 9 reporting that the situation is “very volatile.”
How events unfolded
The other children at the daycare were unharmed and were safely evacuated, Hopkins Police Chief Brent Johnson confirmed. Reports state that the daycare is Brown Bear Childcare. Describing it as a domestic incident, Chief Johnson confirmed at a presser at 11:30am CDT that two adults and a child were found dead at the daycare.
People Involved
Johnson added that the victims were a man, a woman and a child and they were believed to be from the same family. They were believed to be the owners of the daycare. The investigation into the deaths in ongoing with preliminary indications that it was a case of murder-suicide in which the adult male killed the woman and the child before killing himself.
