The Lake County Coroner's Office identified the victims as 27-year-old Briana Payne; and her three girls, 4-year-old Alayna, 6-year-old Ava, and 7-year-old Aurorah. They all died from gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides. The girls' father, 31-year-old Robert Payne, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Briana Payne's mother says just before she and her daughters were killed, she had told her husband she was planning to file for divorce.

Five people, including three children, were found dead inside a home in Lake Station, Indiana, on Friday afternoon, police said.

The identities and causes of death of the five people found dead inside a Lake Station, Indiana home were revealed Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

All five people found dead inside a Northwest Indiana trailer home on Friday have been identified. The Lake County Indiana Coroner said they died of gunshot wounds as the result of a murder-suicide.

Police found the bodies inside a home in Lake Station, Indiana Friday afternoon. Lake Station is about 45 minutes south of Chicago in northwest Indiana. According to police, a man shot and killed his wife and three young daughters before killing himself. Neighbors were shocked to hear the entire family is now gone.

Briana Payne, 27; Aurorah Payne, 7; Ava Payne, 6; and Alayna Payne, 4, were found dead of gunshot wounds, according to the coroner. Their deaths were all ruled homicides. Robert Payne, 31, also died of gunshot wounds.

LAKE STATION, Ind. — Authorities in northwest Indiana are offering new details after five people, including three children, were found dead inside a mobile home in Lake Station on Friday afternoon.

The light is gone for Lili Parker Owens. Parker Owens just bought a house in Gary around Christmas time and with it a whole bunch of baby chicks that her granddaughters Aurorah, Ava and Alayna had

Police conducting a welfare check Friday afternoon discovered five people dead inside a home in northwest Indiana.

Officials say that dozens of migrating sandhill cranes were found dead at a Northwest Indiana lake in recent days, with bird flu the suspected cause of death. According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources,