DELTA TOWNSHIP (AP) The deaths of two young children and their father near Lansing are being treated as three murders and not a case of murder-suicide as pr
The deaths of two young children and their father near Lansing are being treated as three murders and not a case of murder-suicide as previously reported, authorities said Tuesday.
Eaton County Sheriff now investigating shooting deaths of family as murder
3 killed in April 13 shooting
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EATON COUNTY, Mich. – The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating the shooting deaths of a family as murder.
Deputies responded to a shooting on Old River Trail at 11 p.m. on April 13. They found Joseph Lechleitner, 47, and his 5-year-old child Vivian Zwick fatally shot.
They found 3-year-old Anson Zwick wounded, but alive. Anson Zwick died at a hospital.
The father lived in the Shingleton area of the Upper Peninsula. All three people were found in a residential neighborhood in Delta Township, all of them had been shot.
DELTA TWP. The Eaton County Sheriff s Department said they are now investigating the deaths of two children and their father in Delta Township as a murder.
Early reports from the sheriff s office indicated the April 13 deaths of 47-year-old Joseph Lechleitner, 5-year-old Vivian Zwick and 3-year-old Anson Zwick were the result of a murder-suicide.
The sheriff s office said Tuesday the deaths are now being investigated as a murder, according to a press release.
Police were called to a home on Old River Trail in Delta Township at about 11 p.m. April 13 for a report of a shooting, according to the sheriff s office. They found Vivian and Lechleitner dead in the home and Anson in critical condition. Anson died the next day from injuries sustained in the shooting.
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