The Oregon State Police said that deputies forced their way into a home after hearing gunshots and found three people dead inside, including an 11-year-old boy.
A man, a woman and an 11-year-old boy were killed Monday after sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about hostages at a house in Salem, the Oregon State Police said, adding that deputies forced their way into the home after hearing gunshots.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said that at about 12:30 p.m. on Monday, deputies were dispatched to Juneva Place SE in Salem to respond to a “possible hostage situation.” The deputies had tried to “resolve the situation peacefully” and “establish communications” with a man inside, Jose Jesus Lopez-Tinoco, according to a statement from the Oregon State Police.
But on hearing gunshots they entered the house, and a deputy fired “a yet to be determined number of rounds,” the police said.
Inside the home, the deputies found that the boy, who was not identified, and a 24-year-old woman, Diari Bustos-Bustos, had been fatally shot. Mr. Lopez-Tinoco, 34, was found dead with what appeared “to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the police said.
A woman, Laura Rocio-Bustos, 43, was found inside the house with a gunshot wound, and was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. A 13-year-old boy, who was not identified, was “rescued” and not injured, the police said.
The police did not describe how the shootings unfolded and did not say how the people inside the home knew one another.
Source : New York Times
