A six-year-old girl has been slain along with her parents while on a camping trip in a US state park. Tyler Schmidt and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula, six, were found dead at Maquoketa Caves State Park in Iowa at around 6.23am on Friday.
The body of 23-year-old suspect Anthony Orlando Sherwin was discovered with apparent self-inflicted gun wounds following a search of the area. The park has been closed is now an active crime scene.
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) said the incident is being treated as a triple homicide. Autopsies for the Cedar Falls family will be carried out by The Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner, as well as that of Sherwin, reports the Mirror.
