'You could tell they were hungry': Toddlers searching for food lead police to their parents' bodies, cops say

Three young children seeking nutrient led constabulary officers to the dormant bodies of their parents, who were killed successful an evident murder-suicide, Texas authorities announced.

The children – ages 1, 2 and 3 – are believed to person been near unsocial for astatine slightest 24 hours aft the shooting deaths, Houston Police Department Lt. Larry Crowson told KHOU's Maria Aguilera. Officers responded to the country astatine 10940 Meadowglen Lane connected Monday evening.

The kids had approached neighbors successful their flat complex's parking batch "asking for food," Crowson said. Officers arrived astatine the country around 4:15 p.m. When they spoke with the kids, the children reportedly told them their parents were wrong their flat — dead.

The children "were located with nary injuries and are being cared for," the constabulary section said connected Monday. However, neighbors reportedly told officers that the kids had been extracurricular successful the vigor for hours.

Preliminary indications are that the begetter changeable the mother, Crowson added, per the section CBS affiliate.

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The names of the dormant antheral and pistillate – some 26 years aged – person not been released; homicide detectives were inactive investigating connected Tuesday to corroborate that the deaths were owed to a murder-suicide and that determination was nary menace to anyone else.

The children are reportedly being cared for by their grandmother.

"The small ones, you could archer they were bare and thirsty," neighbour Deborah McMillan told ABC affiliate KTRK. "The oldest 1 is who hurts maine the astir due to the fact that she was vivid successful details of what she had witnessed with her parents."

The neighbour suggested to the outlet that she was alert home unit was taking spot successful the flat crossed from hers.

"She came implicit a fewer times, asking to usage the phone. I would speech to her, effort to archer her, 'Hey, it's not worthy it,'" McMillan said. "Her main happening is that she didn't privation to permission due to the fact that of the kids."