Plainville Tragedy: Mother & Daughters Shot Dead

0:00It's March 30, you're listening to Hartford News today, AI-powered local news. Autopsy reports just dropped on that tragic shooting in Plainville, confirming a mother and her two young daughters were shot dead in their milford. Street home before 27-year-old Patrick King turned the gun on himself Friday. All four died from gunshot wounds to the head, with the women and girls ruled homicides and King's death a suicide. The victims were King's girlfriend, 31-year-old Felicia Matthews, their four-year-old daughter Ava, and Matthew's 12-year-old daughter. Milena from another relationship, little Ava to multiple shots. The community is reeling, with memorials piling up outside the house. Balloons, stuffed animals, flowers everywhere. School stepped up too, offering counseling for students and staff after Milena's 6th grade class at Plainville Middle School, heard the news. Police say no prior calls to the home since the family moved in mid-January, and the gun was legally owned with King holding a carry permit.

1:00Multiple firearms were inside when SWAT rolled in, deployed pepper gas, and King ended it before they could take him down. Investigators from Plainville PD, state police, and the state's attorney's office are still digging for a motive, but nothing new yet as the probe rolls on.