Overview

• Police responded to a welfare check just after 11 pm on Sunday at a Melvyn Street home in Bordertown and discovered the bodies of Mirza and Shafeeqa Husseini.
• Investigators have concluded that 47-year-old Mirza Husseini allegedly murdered his 41-year-old wife before taking his own life in what authorities are treating as a murder-suicide.
• Police confirmed that none of the couple’s children were present during the incident, leaving six offspring orphaned by the deaths.
• A postmortem examination for Shafeeqa Husseini is scheduled for Tuesday to establish her official cause of death.
• Acting Assistant Commissioner Cath Hilliard reiterated South Australia’s policy of zero tolerance toward domestic violence following the case.