Medical Examiner Identifies 4 Victims in Hopkins-Burnsville Killings as Memorial Grows
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Updated · KSTP · Aug 14
Medical Examiner Identifies 4 Victims in Hopkins-Burnsville Killings as Memorial Grows
3 articles · Updated · KSTP · Aug 14
Summary
Hennepin County’s medical examiner identified Kristen Brown, 41, Evie Brown, 7, Nathan Brown, 41, and Alice Brown, 78, in the Hopkins-Burnsville killings discovered Wednesday.
Search warrants say Nathan Brown killed his wife and daughter with a screwdriver at the family’s Hopkins home daycare before killing himself; Alice Brown, described by police as a close family relative, was later found dead in Burnsville.
Six children inside the daycare were physically unharmed after a parent who arrived for drop-off heard screaming and called 911, according to investigators.
Court records say Kristen Brown had sent at least one letter about two weeks earlier saying the daycare would close because of “relationship issues with Nathan.”
Flowers, a candle and a plush toy now line the sidewalk outside the Hopkins daycare as the community mourns the killings, which authorities have tied to domestic abuse.