THORNTON, Colo. — A married couple is dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Thornton on Christmas morning, and a hazmat team is investigating “suspicious devices” found at the scene, authorities said.
Thornton police said they received an initial report at 9 a.m. Sunday of a structure fire at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 951 Milky Way, according to a news release.
That was followed by a report that an adult man shot and killed an adult woman, and that the man then fatally shot himself, police said.