The Columbus Dispatch

3 people in home all murdered, sheriff says

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BOULDER, Colo. — A killer or killers targeted the home in the foothills northwest of Denver where three people were found slain, investigat­ors said Sunday.

Deputies conducting a welfare check at the request of a worried acquaintan­ce found two men and a woman dead in the house Saturday, and investigat­ors quickly ruled out murder-suicide as a possibilit­y.

Cmdr. Mike Wagner with the Boulder County sheriff’s office said someone targeted the home and there is no general threat to the public. No informatio­n about a suspect or a possible motive has been released.

The sheriff’s office has identified the victims, but the coroner will not release their names or say how they were killed until their families are notified. Investigat­ors earlier said the bodies showed signs of trauma.

early Sunday, watching police investigat­e the city’s first homicide of the weekend.

The man said he heard people arguing and throwing bottles at each other about 2:30 a.m. before the shots rang out. He said he went to check on what was happening three doors down but then stopped, retreated back.

The killing was the only fatality among 29 people who were shot from Saturday to Sunday morning. Of the people shot, three were teenagers.

Several of the attacks injured multiple victims as gunmen opened fire on groups of people. Two shootings that occurred in the Chatham and Back of the Yards neighborho­ods each injured three people.

Early told reporters during a news conference that a murder charge is expected to be filed.

The arrest comes eight months after Marcotte’s body was found about half a mile from her mother’s house in Princeton, Massachuse­tts, where she was visiting for the weekend. The health-care account manager for Google was last seen about 1 p.m. Aug. 7. Massachuse­tts State Police K-9 teams discovered her body in a wooded area later that night, the Boston Globe reported.

elected Islamist president in 2013. Prosecutor­s provided little if any evidence to support the allegation­s.

revealing the find, which was made more than a year ago.

The museum is on land that used to house the St. Mary-atLambeth Church and is next to Lambeth Palace, the archbishop of Canterbury’s London residence.

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