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A man went to a WA regional police station this morning, revealing a series of murders in a suburban house in Perth, Bedford.
The police arrived in the northeastern suburbs around noon (Washington time), where they found the bodies of five people, including a mother, her three children, and their grandmother. According to unconfirmed reports, the children were 18-month-old twins and their three-year-old sister.
The address of Coode St and surrounding areas have since been cordoned off. Homicide detectives and forensic analysts erected a pavilion on the street at the intersection with Fort Street as they began their investigations.
The man, said to be about twenty years old, would be "known" by the victims. He is in detention and interrogated.
Police said the incident did not raise public safety concerns.
Neighbors said that a couple and their three children – a three-year-old girl and 18-month-old twins – were living at home but that they had not seen them in recent days.
NEIGHBORS "IN SHOCK"
Neighbor Desrae Cambos said in Perth that the family, who seemed very united, had been living at home for about four years with the father running a mowing and landscaping business.
Ms. Cambos said she had assumed that the family had gone on vacation because she had not seen her father parked in the driveway since last week.
A helpless neighbor says WA todaythat she often saw children playing in the front yard of the house at the police investigation center.
"How could anyone do this to his own children? It's disgusting to think that someone could do that.
Another neighbor said WA today she did not personally know the occupants of the house, but often waved her hand and spent the night.
"It shocked us completely," she said. "It's horrible at all levels."
Neighbor Vagner de Souza told the ABC that he regularly saw a family in the yard of the house.
"Just a normal family, you would never imagine something like that happening," he said.
ONGOING SURVEYS
"Unfortunately, at this location, the police found the bodies of a number of dead people, including women and children," said Paul Steel, Assistant Commissioner of the WA Police, this afternoon .
"This is a tragic event and this will undoubtedly have an impact not only on the family and friends of the deceased, but on the entire community, these first representatives who must attend a scene with several deceased persons ".
"This sends a wave through the community of Western Australia."
He did not confirm the exact number of deaths and also did not specify what was the relationship between the man in detention and the deceased. He also did not answer a question asking if any weapons had been found.
Steel said the investigation was still at a very early stage.
"While the scene still needs to be examined forensic, it is thought that up to five deceased people are on this scene," said Steel, adding that there was at least one woman among the dead.
It has not yet been determined how long the bodies were there, he said.
"We are three hours into this investigation, I do not have more details about those present on the scene.
"I can assure people that the Western Australian Police Force is conducting a thorough and appropriate investigation to determine what events led to this tragic case. The homicide squad currently has teams of detectives in the field, accompanied by forensic police officers who meticulously navigate this crime scene. "
Mortally TALLY
The incident comes a few months after seven people were found dead in Margaret River. A mother, her four children, and two grandparents were killed in a shootout on a rural property in Osmington, in the southwestern part of the state.
The deaths of Katrina Miles, her parents, Cynda and Peter Miles, owners of the property, and her four children have been described as the worst shootings in Australia since the Port Arthur Massacre. Two guns were found at Osmington's address in what was considered a murder-suicide.
In July, a mother and two children were killed in Ellenbrook.
