Neighbors react after police find seven dead in Minnesota home

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Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay

MOORHEAD, M.N. (Valley News Live/Gray News) – Heavy feelings surround a neighborhood after police found seven dead in a south Moorhead, Minnesota, home Saturday evening.

According to KVLY, the victims included four adults and three children.

Police said there are no signs of violence or forced entry, and there is no known threat to the public.

Read more: https://www.wbay.com/2021/12/20/neighbors-react-after-police-find-seven-dead-minnesota-home/

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Looks to me like carbon monoxide.

Tragic.

[PTWB]

1. That's horrible.

Our smoke detectors all do double duty as carbon monoxide detectors as well.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

7. Smoke rises

Carbon Monoxide sinks....Detector in the middle?

[oldsoftie]

9. Carbon monoxide is actually slightly lighter than air.

But it equally disperse throughout a room.

[PTWB]

10. Carbon Monoxide rises.

It is slightly lighter than air.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Not only is it lighter than air, it's usually warm

Since it’s the product of combustion, it’s usually warmer than surrounding air, making it rise even more. I have a detector at the tip of my basement stairs because all has appliances are in the basement. That detector saved my life once by waking me up as I was being poisoned and paralyzed. I barely made it to the sliding door!

[hlthe2b]

3. I can't understand why so many seem to take Carbon Monoxide so lightly (if this is at issue)...

I have had almost as many arguments with friends/colleagues about their use of generators in attached garages (with nothing more than the garage door cracked) as I have about COVID vaccines and precautions.

So sad...

[SCantiGOP]

11. I've read that you will never know it if you are a victim

At least it is a peaceful death, but you would never realize that you were slipping into unconsciousness.

[mountain grammy]

4. Several years ago I asked our friends to get CO detectors.

Then I gave them out as Christmas gifts.

[certainot]

8. good idea

[NickB79]

5. You can't take the risk of CO poisoning lightly

In addition to having CO alarms and regular furnace tuneups, always check exhausts on your house after a snowstorm or periods of blowing snow. A snowdrift covering the water heater exhaust can be lethal.

[uppityperson]

6. Family ID'd, how sad.

https://www.inforum.com/news/moorhead/police-identify-7-people-found-dead-in-moorhead-home

The deceased were identified as members of the Hernandez-Pinto family. They are Belin Hernandez, 37; Marleny Pinto, 34; Breylin Hernandez, 16; Mike Hernandez, 7; Marbely Hernandez, 5; Eldor Hernandez Castillo, 32; and Mariela Guzman Pinto, 19, according to Moorhead police.

Police said the seven relatives were living at the home at 4403 13th St. S. where their bodies were found.

"Preliminary autopsy results have positively identified the seven victims found deceased on Saturday evening. The preliminary autopsy has ruled out any obvious trauma as the cause of death; however, the blood samples from the victims have been transported to a lab for further investigatory examination, and we do not have any timeline on those results," police said in a statement Monday, Dec. 20.

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According to dispatch reports, the Moorhead Fire Department responded to a call for a carbon monoxide detector check at the home at 12:56 a.m. Sunday, several hours after the bodies were discovered. It's unclear who called for the check and whether the home had a working carbon monoxide detector.

[MustLoveBeagles]

12. That's sad