Shots Heard As Police Try To Enter Apartment

"FARMINGTON HILLS, MI — A 22-month-old boy and his father died early this morning following an apparent murder-suicide in the family's apartment, police said.

"Police suspect that a contentious pending divorce is at the heart of the deaths that occurred just after midnight at the Green Hills Apartments at the 22000 block of Green Hill Road.

"A woman at that address called police at 12:11 a.m. to say that her husband assaulted her.

"When police arrived and tried to enter the apartment they heard several gunshots fired from inside, a police news release says. Inside the residence, police found the man, 34, and child dead in the boy's bedroom, with a shotgun lying on the floor next to the man. Police did not say whether the two had gunshot wounds. The bodies have been taken to the Oakland County Medical Examiner's office. Both had gunshot wounds. An autopsy is pending.

"The names of the man, child and woman have not been released."

From The Detroit News...