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2 children, 2 adults found dead in Colorado home in possible murder-suicide, officials say


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Two children and two adults were found shot to death in a Colorado home, in what officials believe was a murder-suicide.

La Junta police officers were called to the home in La Junta, a city located in southeastern Colorado, on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m., the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.

Officers found two adults and one child already deceased inside the home, according to the release. The other child died after being taken to a Denver-area hospital, the bureau said.

Initial information, although "very preliminary," indicates the shootings were not a random incident and that the deceased knew one another, according to the bureau.

This is a developing story