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Police: 5 family members found dead in US home

/ 11:38 AM September 11, 2015

Minnesota Five Dead

South Lake Minnetonka interim Police Chief Michael Siitari, right, climbs over the police tape to address the media Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 in Greenwood, Minn. after five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home in an upscale western Minneapolis suburb on Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. AP

MINNEAPOLIS — Five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide.

Police in an upscale suburb of Minneapolis went to check on the family after no one was seen or heard from in days, South Lake Minnetonka Interim Chief Mike Siitari told The Associated Press. Siitari wouldn’t release any information on how the family members died but said there appeared to be “no threat or danger to the community.”

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The children had not been in school for the past two days, Siitari said. The request to check on the family came from a co-worker of the father, he said.

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Authorities did not release the identities of those killed, but the father’s business posted a notice online identifying Brian Short and his family as the victims.

Siitari said the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office was processing a “complex crime scene.”

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Aerial footage from KSTP-TV showed an upscale home in Greenwood, a village of about 700 people on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, west of Minneapolis. At the scene, police officers had sealed off Channel Drive, a wooded cul de sac leading toward St. Alban’s Bay on the lake. A sign at the entrance to the cul de sac read “Children playing.” The family’s house wasn’t visible beyond the police line.

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Hennepin County property databases list the house as registered to Brian and Karen Short. Brian Short is the founder of AllNurses.com, a resource portal for nurses. An online biography at the site said Short lived outside Minneapolis with his wife and three children.

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The biography describes Short as a one-time nursing student and entrepreneur who built and launched the website in the late 1990s when he couldn’t find nursing-related information online.

An administrator of AllNurses.com posted a notice Thursday night saying that the family had been killed and calling it “a very tragic loss for the extended families, friends, co-workers, and this nursing community.”

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TAGS: Crime, dead, Family, Killing, Minneapolis, Murder, Suicide

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