Family of five found dead inside Ohio home in murder-suicide

Five family members, including several children, were found dead inside a home in Ohio on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide. 

Police responded to a home on the 13000 block of Carnation Avenue Northwest in Uniontown in Stark County at around 7:31 p.m. to conduct a well-being check. Inside the home, police found five dead bodies, including three children aged 14, 12, and nine. Police confirmed that all of the victims were family members. 

The victims are believed to have died as part of a “domestic dispute turned deadly,” said the police, without providing more details about their deaths. 

“At this time, it is believed there are no other persons involved in this incident,” the Uniontown Police Department said in a statement.

Police are investigating the incident as a “quadruple homicide, suicide,” according to the coroner’s office and the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office. The Uniontown Police Department, along with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Stark County Prosecutor’s Office will be investigating the deaths. 

The family members were identified by the chief investigator of the coroner’s office, Henry Campbell, as Jason Dunham, 46, Melissa Dunham, 42, and their children Renne, 14, Amber, 12, and Evan, nine. 

Campbell said all of the victims died from gunshot wounds, reported the Akron Beacon Journal. They were pronounced dead at the home at 9:52 p.m.