Baltimore County Police on Saturday released the names of three people killed in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide Thursday afternoon in Catonsville.
Officers were called around 3:30 p.m. to the 7400 block of Wilton Farm Drive to check on a person, police said. Inside the home, they found 42-year-old Chantel Sharieff suffering from apparent trauma and her 6-year-old daughter, Kimana Sharieff, with a gunshot wound. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police also found 43-year-old Mustafa Sharieff, the child’s father, with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators said he is believed to be responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
Detectives are treating the case as a double murder-suicide. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause and manner of death.
It is the second suspected murder-suicide in the county within four months. In April, Karen Franklin, 59, and Gary Franklin, 63, were found with fatal gunshot wounds in the 3500 block of Avery Hill Drive in Owings Mills. Police investigated that case as a murder-suicide.
There have been 21 homicides in Baltimore County so far this year, according to a police spokesperson.
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