Dad fatally shoots wife, teen son in apparent murder-suicide at NJ home: report

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SUCCASUNNA, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- A father allegedly shot and killed his wife and son before turning the gun on himself Tuesday morning, according to reports.

Police in Roxbury Township were called to a home along Justine Place in the Succasunna neighborhood Tuesday morning for a welfare check and discovered the three bodies, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.

The people killed have not yet been identified, but law enforcement sources sources told NBC New York a father shot his wife and teenage son before shooting himself.

Officials said there is no danger to the public and an ongoing investigation is ongoing.

More information will be released “at the appropriate time,” prosecutors said.

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