Murder-suicide on N. Front Street

Published 3:21 am Tuesday, July 17, 2007

By Staff
Dowagiac Police Chief Thomas Atkinson reports that on Monday, July 16, at 6:24 p.m., officers of his department were called to a residence in the 500 block of N. Front Street for a welfare check.
When officers arrived they entered the house and discovered that two adult occupants of the residence were dead.
Officers, along with the Cass County Medical Examiner, are investigating what appears to be a murder/suicide.
Names of the deceased were withheld by police pending notification of family.
Dowagiac police were assisted by deputies of the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Animal Control and the Dowagiac police chaplain.