Two mother and father had been discovered useless alongside two of their kids in a suspected murder-suicide, simply weeks after their 4-year-old daughter drowned in a Texas swimming pool.
The household was recognized on Tuesday as father Farman Sherwani, mom Layla Sherwani, and sons Mateen Sherwani, 2, and Shaheen Sherwani, 12, police mentioned. Authorities found their our bodies inside a residence in Allen throughout a welfare test on Monday. Police mentioned one other one of many dwelling’s residents requested the test, telling officers they’d been locked out and that nobody had come to the door after hours of knocking.
Every of the victims suffered gunshot wounds and authorities are investigating the bloody incident as a murder-suicide, the Star-Telegram reported. Police didn’t present additional particulars, together with which member of the family they believed to be behind the killings.
Allen Unbiased Faculty District spokesman David Hicks confirmed one of many victims was a fifth grader at Olson Elementary Faculty. He informed the Dallas Morning-Information {that a} word was despatched dwelling to households earlier this week and that counselors could be made out there to college students in want.
“We’re all shocked and saddened by this information,” principal Susanne Miller mentioned within the letter. “I ask that you simply please hold the household and family members in your ideas over the approaching days and months.”
The violence comes simply lower than a month after the household, members of the native Muslim group, buried their 4-year-old daughter, Lyian Sherwani, KXAS reported. Whereas the precise particulars surrounding her dying remained unclear Wednesday, Imam Abdul Rahman Bashir, the non secular director for the Islamic Affiliation of Allen, mentioned she drowned in a swimming pool accident three weeks in the past.
In an e mail to NBC Information, Allen Police Sgt. Johnathan Maness famous that police suspect the woman’s dying “is unquestionably an element that performed into” the lethal violence earlier this week.