Kent County Sheriff personnel investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near the corner of 19 Mile NE and Division Avenue NE at a property on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, near Cedar Springs, Mich. WOOD-TV reports Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young says authorities discovered the victims at a property near Cedar Springs, a community about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids. (Neil Blake/MLive.com/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
SOLON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Authorities say evidence suggests some of the three children and a woman found fatally shot in a western Michigan house may have been killed elsewhere.
The Kent County sheriff's office said in a news release investigators are checking a "wooded piece of property" Tuesday near the Solon Township home where the bodies were found a day earlier. Solon Township is about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Grand Rapids.
Authorities have not released the victims' identities or explained how they are related. Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young has said the children were elementary school-aged and younger.
Autopsies are to start Wednesday. Police say the victims will officially be identified once the autopsies are completed.
Authorities say they don't believe a shooter is at large.
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Information from: WOOD-TV, http://www.woodtv.com
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