LOUISVILLE, Ky.-
Four children were found dead in a public housing complex Friday after a man walked into police headquarters and said he had killed his family.
A woman believed to be the children’s mother was found wounded but alive, and was being treated at a hospital for non-life threatening injuries, police Lt. Col. Philip Turner said.
Officers sent to the apartment at the Iroquois Homes complex found the bodies of the four children, who appeared to be 8 years old or younger, Turner said. He did not release details about their injuries.
Translators were assisting police because the family had immigrated from Africa, he said.
“There are a whole lot of questions of the why,” Turner said. “We don’t have a clue right now of the why.”
The man went to police headquarters about 9 a.m. Friday and told homicide detectives that he had killed his family, Turner said.
Osman Noor, a brother of the injured woman, said three of the children were school-age and one was in day care.
“They were wonderful children. They were happy children,” Noor said.
Christina Geiger, 31, who has lived at the complex since January, said her children played with the young victims. Geiger said she hadn’t noticed any problems between the woman and the man.
“I call it a senseless tragedy. That’s what I think of this,” she said through tears.
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