Family Killed-Suicide
Matt Volz | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 5 months AGO
Detective Steve Barclay stands in front of the fire-damaged cabin near Deer Lodge where a man shot and killed his wife and three children Sunday morning. (AP photo) set a fire in the family's remote cabin and then killed himself, officials in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County said. Detective Steve Barclay said an investigation determined the man shot his wife and 1-year-old child inside, then went outside and shot two other children — ages 4 and 6. He carried the bodies of the children inside and laid them down on a bed in the cabin, Barclay said. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)
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