Victims of Western Australia shooting are three generations of the same family, reports say
A mother, her children and parents said to have been gunned down in suspected murder-suicide in small town in the Margaret River region
Three generations of one family were widely reported on Saturday to be the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, an apparent murder-suicide in which seven people were found dead.
Police have declined to identify the four children and three adults discovered on Friday at a rural property near the Margaret River wine region in Western Australia.
But neighbours told local media the dead were Katrina Miles, her children aged eight to 13 and her parents.
Two guns were found with the bodies and police have made no mention of any suspect in the case, suggesting a murder-suicide although this was not confirmed.
Felicity Haynes, who lies nearby, told broadcaster ABC the family involved were “caring neighbours”.