4 found dead in Grand Meadow died in murder-suicide

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Police and firefighters found a 38-year old man and his three sons dead after responding to a house fire in the small southern Minnesota town of Grand Meadow Sunday. The Mower County Sheriff now says all four died from gunshot wounds and the father killed his 14-year old twins and his 7-year old boy, before shooting and killing himself.

A 38-year old man shot and killed his three sons before shooting and killing himself Sunday in a home in a small, southern Minnesota town, according to the Mower County Sheriff’s office. The bodies of all four were discovered by emergency personnel responding to a house fire late Sunday morning.

Mower County Sheriff Steve Sandvik identified the dead as Levi David Christenson, 38, his 14-year-old twin sons, Oliver James Christenson and Felix Richard Christenson, and 7-year-old Calvin Jones Christenson, all of Grand Meadow, about 20 miles south of Rochester.

In a news release, Sa...