Overview

• Deputies conducting a welfare check Sunday evening at a home on the 5600 block of CR250 North discovered the three adults’ bodies shortly after arrival.
• La Porte County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as Harriet Kowalski, 102; Leonard Ciastko, 75; and Linda Ciastko, 73.
• All three were found with gunshot wounds to the head, leading investigators to classify the deaths as a probable murder-suicide.
• Detectives from the sheriff’s criminal investigations division are overseeing the ongoing probe into how the victims died.
• Local officials state the incident appears isolated and that there is no immediate public threat.