Four people, including a woman and her three children, have been found dead inside a house near Tulsa, Oklahoma, local officials say. It’s believed to be a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident began around 4 p.m. on Thursday when a police patrol in Verdigris, a town just east of Tulsa in Rogers County, was alerted to a woman who had been held hostage by another woman in the garage of a house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman was taken to safety and told police that the suspect was inside the house with children and armed with a gun. A large number of police officers, including the Cherokee Nation SWAT team, responded to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Police tell me they knew the woman was armed with a semi automatic pistol and were trying to get her to come out of the house because they didn\u2019t want to go inside because of the children,” journalist Reagan Ledbetter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After several hours, at around 7:30 p.m., officers entered the home and discovered the bodies of four people. It’s believed the woman killed her children before taking her own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was not immediately clear when the four died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The identities of those killed were not released but police said the children were between 6 months and 11 years old. Information about a possible motive was not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four people, including a woman and her three children, have been found dead inside a house near Tulsa, Oklahoma, local officials say. It’s believed to be a murder-suicide. The incident began around 4 p.m. on Thursday when a police patrol in Verdigris, a town just east of Tulsa in Rogers County, was alerted to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[15,85,94,151,2338],"class_list":["post-41629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","category-usnews","tag-featured","tag-oklahoma","tag-shooting","tag-united-states","tag-verdigris-oklahoma"],"yoast_head":"\n