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Reports: 2 children dead after murder-suicide in Harris County

Posted at 3:18 PM, Jul 12, 2018
and last updated 2018-07-12 18:07:19-04

Two children and a man have been killed in a murder-suicide in Harris County, according to the sheriff's office.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office said they were responding to a shooting in the 14000 block of Edgeboro St. in northeast Harris County. They said in a tweet that it seemed that children were involved, and the man was dead. 

The sheriff's office said that it appears that the man was the shooter. The children were a girl and a boy.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales said that the man was the father of one of the children. Authorities said they believe the children were taken from their grandmother's home around 1 p.m.in Jacinto City.

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