Three found dead after report of shooting at Apple Valley home

Updated: 3:33 p.m. Wednesday

Three people were found dead Saturday at a home in the southern Twin Cities metro, in what authorities said was an apparent murder-suicide.

Apple Valley police said officers responded to the home on Upper Elkwood Court just after noon, after a caller reported several people had been shot. Two men and one woman were found dead from apparent gunshot wounds.

Authorities reported that investigators spoke with friends, relatives and neighbors on Saturday. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had finished its preliminary investigation by Sunday afternoon, according to a statement from Apple Valley police.

Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office on Wednesday identified the victims as 23-year-old Jonathan Joseph Petrovich, 27-year-old Alexander James Petrovich and 60-year-old Janice Lucille Petrovich.

“Based on their findings, the deaths appear to be acts of family violence concluded with the perpetrator ending their own life,” the statement read. “There are no outstanding suspects and no threat to the surrounding community.”

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