PRICES CORNER, Del.- Police have released the names of a man and a woman found shot to death along with three children inside a house in Delaware.
Delaware State Police identified the adults as 42-year-old Matthew Edwards and his wife, 41-year-old Julie Edwards. The children included a 6-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy. Police said the five were located inside the home dead, all from an apparent gunshot wound. Matthew Edwards sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound, investigators said.
The bodies were turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science where autopsies were performed and have ruled the deaths to be murder/suicide by gunshot.
State Police Sgt. Richard Bratz said troopers were called out just before 8 p.m. Monday to the home on the 2700 block of Ferris Road in Prices Corner. When troopers arrived on the scene they found the five bodies upstairs inside the home.
