Overview
- Police responded to a residence near Maple Island Road and Joplin Avenue in Burnsville after a report of a stabbing and found an adult female dead; the scene remains active and contained.
- Authorities told local outlets they believe the Burnsville homicide is connected to an earlier incident at an in-home daycare in Hopkins where two adults and a child were found dead.
- Hopkins officers said six other children at the daycare were rescued and reunited with family members and investigators preliminarily believe the deaths in Hopkins involved members of a single family.
- Burnsville and Hopkins police plan a joint news conference to provide more details and investigators have not released victim identities, a motive, or any suspect information.
- Officials have asked people to avoid the area while detectives work and emphasize there is no indication of a continued public threat as the investigation continues.