Woman Kills Herself After Shooting Three Of Her Relatives To Death

A woman reportedly killed herself after shooting three of her male relatives to death in Rockaway Street, Lynn, Massachusetts on Tuesday, Aug. 23.

Lynn Police officers received reports of a possible shooting incident after residents of the city's Highlands neighborhood alerted them about 30 gunshots coming from a home on Rockaway Street at about 2:45 on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 23. When law enforcement arrived at the scene, they found two unnamed men, a 66-year-old and a 34-year-old, dead inside the Rockaway Street home of apparent gunshot wounds, CBS Boston News reported.

The investigating officers later identified a 31-year-old female relative of the two victims as a possible suspect in the shooting. Following this, the police tracked the woman down to her motor vehicle in a Stop and Shop parking lot on Washington Street in Lynn. About an hour and a half later, she was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officials later discovered that the 66-year-old man killed was the woman's father, and the 34-year-old was her brother-in-law.

Meanwhile, officers found a third man shot and killed inside a minivan parked outside a home on Laighton Street in Lynn. The authorities revealed that the man was 56 years old and was the father of the suspect's brother-in-law. According to investigating officers, he was allegedly shot and killed by the same woman who murdered the men on Rockaway Street, People reported.

Following the incident, a woman who lives near the Rockaway Street crime scene described what she heard on the day of the incident.

"The first time was like ten, ten really loud bangs, but after three minutes again, over 20 shots, pow, pow, pow," she said. "One after another one and this is when I went literally on the floor because it was shots, and my neighbors came out, everybody was outside."

Law enforcement confirmed that investigation into the incident is still ongoing. The authorities have not revealed what may have led up to these killings and have not identified the names of the people murdered.

"While the investigation is still underway we have been assured that there is no ongoing danger to the community," Lynn Mayor Jared Nicholson said in a statement. "We ask for the public to respect the family's privacy at this time as public safety officials continue their investigations."