Police are investigating a murder suicide in Independence Township. A teenaged girl called 911 to say both of her parents were shot. The girl's mother died; her father surivived. Police say the 25-year-old suspect shot and killed himself.
The 19-year-old tells police she met the man at the Salvation Army in Oxford where they both worked. He was doing mandated community service work for a marijuana posession. He asked her out; she said she had a boyfriend. She never suspected he would go on a deadly shooting rampage. The girl arrived home at her parents house and found the gunman inside her bedroom on the 4700 block of Whipple Lake Rd. She screamed for help, her parents rushed to her aid and both were shot.
"She was being choked and thrown to the ground and she screamed, mom came in, he confronted mom and shot mom," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. "Dad came running in, he shot dad. Dad retreated, went to get a weapon to defend himself and his family and that's when he heard the third shot which was the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the suspect."
