5 members of Texas family, including infant, fatally shot

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Authorities say five members of an East Texas family, including a 15-month-old child, have been found dead at the family’s home. Polk County sheriff’s officials say they all were shot and killed, and that two men were found dead inside the house while two women and the infant girl were discovered outside the residence.

Chief Deputy Byron Lyons identified the adults as Ashley Delaney, her husband Randy Horn, and Delaney’s in-laws, Carlos and Lynda Delaney. The child’s identity wasn’t immediately released.

Lyons says a woman who was found safe and locked in a bedroom closet told investigators that she awoke about 5:30 a.m. Monday to a disturbance described as popping noises. She called her son, who alerted authorities about 10:30 a.m.

Lyons says a firearm was recovered from the house about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northeast of Houston and that no suspects are being sought. But he declined to characterize the shootings as homicides and a suicide.

https://www.abqjournal.com/1279597/5-members-of-texas-family-including-infant-found-shot-dead.html

[hlthe2b]

1. Oh, gawd... they shot the infant!

cruelty and horror multiplied!

How could anyone...?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. When I read when BABIES are shot......

I cry. What did they do to deserve such fate? When I see my 3 granddaughters and I hug and kiss them. The youngest are 6 and almost 8.

[dalton99a]

3. Sounds like they know who did it

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6694263/Man-allegedly-shot-dead-wife-baby-withdrawn-bar-hours-before.html
EXCLUSIVE: Man, 54, who 'shot dead his wife, 27, their baby girl, and his wife's grandparents in murder-suicide' was 'withdrawn' at bar hours before and had posted cryptic Facebook message about 'bad decisions'

[mikeysnot]

4. Guns saving lives....

in some peoples imagination.

[Demsrule86]

5. It took five hours to call her son who alerted the authorities....looks like the killer may be her

and possibly her son is involved...very fishy story.

[AkFemDem]

6. It was the deceased WIFE'S mother who called her son...

Not the killers mother.

[Demsrule86]

7. Wasn't she hiding in a closet? Awful thing. I would bet it will be a family member who did this.

I have not heard anything but the murderer could be among the dead.

[Aristus]

8. Official Reaction from the State of Texas:

"Shame 'bout all them dead people, ain't it? But that gun shore is a beauty, ain't it?"