5 People Found Dead in a Single Home, Including 2 Children

"Five people, including two children, were found dead in southwest Oklahoma City on Monday morning," according to police.

"While very little was known about the slayings as of early Monday afternoon, the Oklahoma City Police Department said on social media that those found dead were each homicide victims."

Per a department spokesperson, the bodies were discovered around 9:30 a.m. local time.

According to KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, officers found the bodies about 9:35 a.m. in a home in the suburb of Yukon.

The home in the 2800 block of Mirage Street – just blocks from the major intersection of Southwest 29th Street and Czech Hall Road – was deemed a crime scene.

Sgt. Gary Knight, the police department’s spokesman, described what was found as “very tragic.”

“Police were notified about five deceased people inside a residence in southeast Oklahoma City,” Knight said in a short Facebook live update on the department page.

He added, “When officers arrived they made entry into the home and did indeed find five people in there who were deceased.”

“The five people had injuries, all consistent with homicide,” Knight added.

The officer said there was no doubt the deaths were consistent with a mass murder inside the home. They were not deaths due to accidental causes, such as drug overdoses, he said.

“This wasn’t a gas-type of a situation or a fentanyl-type of situation,” Knight said. “These are five people who were killed.”

Taylor Mitchell, a reporter with the Oklahoma City NBC News affiliate KFOR-TV, reported she was told the victims each died “violently.”

Knight said investigators would have to obtain a warrant to enter the home and begin a comprehensive investigation.

But he did note, “Of the five [dead] at least two were children.”

Yukon is considered a relatively safe bedroom community in the Sooner State, and had a population of just over 23,000 at the time of the 2020 Census.