Four Dead In Apparent Arundel Co. Murder-Suicide

Two adults, two teens found Sunday in Brooklyn Park, police investigating

A Brooklyn Park man killed his wife and her twin children on Sunday before he sent a text message to his mother and turned a gun on himself, police said.

Anne Arundel County Police identified the man as Kelly Brian Thompson, 33, who lived in a Wood Street rowhouse. They said he first shot and killed his wife, Nina Thompson, 34, and her 15-year-old twins, Taishawn Pugh, a girl, and Treshawn Pugh, a boy.

He then texted an agitated message to his mother, who called police and went to the house around 9 a.m., police said. As she and the police stood outside the Wood Street residence, they heard the self-inflicted gunshot that killed Thompson.

"Right now all indications are that this was a murder suicide — that the male shot and killed the other three persons and then shot himself as the officers were talking to his mother," a county police spokesman, Lt. J.D. Batten, said.

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