New Jersey police suspect that the death of two children from Tabernacle and the wounding of their brother and a woman was a murder-suicide case.

Tabernacle, located 30 miles from Philadelphia, is part of Burlington County that includes a wooded area, known as New Jersey Pinelands, where few families live. The lack of an active search for the shooter and the absence of a dangerous person in the secluded community is the reason why the probers think it is a murder-suicide, reports the Daily Mail.

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The two dead children are estimated to be of middle-school and high-school ages.

The state police got a call on Thursday from the family's relative at about 9:15 a.m. that the two kids and the woman were shot. The police responded to the call and found the four inside the same room.

A handgun, believed to be the weapon used, was also found. There was one bullet wound on the head of the woman, while the police did not state the location of the two children's shots.

The police brought the two wounded individuals to the Cooper University Hospital in Camden. The boy is 10 years old.

Because of the puzzling circumstances behind the incident, state police Detective Geoff Noble said it would likely take investigators a long time to determine what really happened and to classify it as a murder-suicide incident.

Ironically, one family member who was at their Tabernacle residence did not hear the gunfire. Other neighbors likewise said they did not know the two families who share the same house nor heard any noise in the area until the cops and the choppers arrived.

Mike Watson, a resident of New Jersey Pinelands for a quarter of a century, described their community as a very quiet and peaceful area where residents could hear a pin drop, but ironically not a gun being fired.

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