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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? The founder of a social networking service for nurses used a shotgun to kill his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself, police said Saturday after the release of autopsy reports.
Investigators believe Brian Short killed his wife, Karen, and their three teenage children in their Greenwood home late Monday or early Tuesday, Mike Siitari, the interim chief of the South Lake Minnetonka's police department, told The Associated Press.
"All evidence indicates Brian Short killed his family members in their bedrooms before turning the gun on himself," the department said in a news release.
Officers found the dead family members Thursday during a welfare check at their home. A co-worker of Brian Short told police they hadn't been heard from in days. The children hadn't reported to school since it resumed on Tuesday.
Police found Karen Short, 48, and the three children ? Cole, 17, Madison, 15, and Brooklyn, 14 ? dead in their bedrooms. Brian Short, 45, was found dead in the home's eight-car garage.
The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled Saturday that all five died from shotgun wounds to the head and that only Brian Short's wound was self-inflicted.
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