In what appeared to be a case of triple murder-suicide, three adults and a child were dead in Casselberry, Florida, on Tuesday morning. 

Casselberry Police Department spokesperson Capt. William Nas. told local media that deputies responded to the home at 2333 Coawood Court around 7:15 am on Tuesday after one of the men involved in the shooting called 911 and informed that he was shot. 

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The responding officers found a man, two women, and a boy with gunshot injuries. Paramedics treated them at the scene but none of them survived. 

“Preliminary information has indicated this is a circumstance involving a subject who committed triple homicide and then suicide,” a spokesperson for the police department said in a statement.

“The scene is contained and there are no suspects outstanding, nor is there any danger to the public at this time.”

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The investigation was ongoing but authorities confirmed there was no danger to the public. The circumstances that led to the incident were not known. 

The incident comes less than a month after a man fatally shot his wife and stepdaughter before turning the gun on himself at a Riverview home in Florida. 

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Deputies arrived at the scene when the father, identified as 64-year-old Thomas Schultz, called 911 to say he was in an “impossible situation with no way out.”

The responding officers found Schultz dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. They also found his wife and stepdaughter dead. While the wife was shot in her sleep, the stepdaughter was killed in her hospital bed. The family told authorities that both the women were suffering from terminal illnesses.