Overview
- Inver Grove Heights police, which responded Sunday to a welfare check on the 3200 block of 78th Street East, found three people who were pronounced dead at the scene.
- Officers called the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to assist and have opened an active investigation into what led to the welfare check.
- Authorities say there is no active threat to the public and investigators are working to determine the circumstances that led to the deaths.
- The Dakota County medical examiner will later release the identities of the deceased and their causes of death, and officials asked anyone with information to call (651) 450-2530.
- Welfare checks are routine safety responses and the BCA and medical examiner commonly assist when deaths occur, so the probe will focus on forensic identification and cause rather than on a wider public search.