Six children at daycare unharmed, reunited with parents
HOPKINS, Minn. — A man killed his partner and their child at the Minnesota home daycare the couple owned before taking his own life, police said Wednesday.
Authorities in Hopkins, a suburb of Minneapolis, said six other children who were at the daycare have been reunited with their parents, and none were injured.
Hopkins Police Chief Brent Johnson said another parent called police after witnessing the attack while bringing a child to the home.
“There’s no worse scenario than this, where you drop off your child somewhere you think is safe, and you get that phone call,” Johnson said at a news conference.
Johnson declined to say how the victims died. He said he did not know the relationship between the two adults who owned the daycare, but that the child who died is believed to be theirs.
Johnson said killings are a “rarity” in Hopkins and that his officers were shaken by the scene they found inside the home.
“I could see on the look on their faces that this was one of those ones that you’ll remember for your entire career, if not life,” Johnson said.