FOUR FOUND DEAD IN FREDERICK CO. HOME

(Mt. Airy, MD) – Maryland State Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of four people found inside a Frederick County home last night.

The victims include an adult male, an adult female, a female child and a male child. Positive identification of the victims has not been made at this time. It is possible the four were members of the same family.

The bodies of the victims have been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore. Autopsies may be conducted later today. Investigators hope to obtain positive identifications and learn the cause and manner of death for each victim from forensic examiners.

At about 5:40 p.m. yesterday, Maryland State Police assigned to the Mt. Airy Resident Trooper Program responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding suspicious circumstances at a single family home in the 300-block of Contour Road in Mt. Airy. The call came from a friend of the family at that address. He had gone to the home because he had not heard from the family and was concerned about their welfare. Receiving no answer at the door, or to repeated phone calls, he went to the rear of the home, looked in a window and saw a body.

Troopers entered the home and found all four victims, who had each sustained obvious trauma. Troopers quickly searched the home and found no one else there. EMS personnel from the Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Department determined each victim was deceased. Troopers secured the home and called for criminal investigators and crime scene technicians to respond.

Troopers believed the incident was contained to the home and there was no continuing threat to the neighborhood. However, at this stage of the investigation, nothing has been ruled out and all possibilities are being considered.

On the advice of the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office, State Police criminal investigators applied for and obtained a search warrant for the residence. Shortly after 9:30 p.m., the search warrant was granted. Investigators and crime scene technicians entered the home and began processing the scene. They are expected to be working at the scene until sometime Saturday morning.

No further information is available at this time. Additional information is expected to be released after the autopsies are conducted, but that is not anticipated until sometime this afternoon.