Update: The victims of a fatal shooting Friday in a Iowa state park were a Cedar Falls couple and their 6-year-old daughter, officials said, in what appears to have been a random attack. The bodies of Tyler Schmidt, 42; his wife, Sarah Schmidt, 42; and their daughter, Lula, were found in their tent, the AP reports. Mayor Rob Green, who said he was a neighbor of the family's, posted on Facebook that the couple's 9-year-old son, Arlo, "survived the attack, and is safe." Police haven't found that the gunman had any interaction with the family before opening fire. "We don't know what led up to this," an official said Saturday. A GoFundMe page for the boy says, "Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can." Our original story from Friday follows:
Three people were killed in a shooting at a state park in eastern Iowa Friday morning, and the suspect is also dead, police said. Officers responded to reports of three homicides at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30am, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said in a statement, per the Quad-City Times. Mike Krapfl, special agent in charge, said they found three people dead at the scene, but he did not specify how they died and has not released their identities, per the AP. Nor did authorities discuss a motive.
Krapfl said officers searching the campground later found the body of a 23-year-old Nebraska man who had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The campground was evacuated in the wake of the shooting. A children's summer camp on the site called Camp Shalom said in a Facebook post that parents had been notified and that it had established a pickup site for campers. Camp Shalom officials said they have accounted for all campers. Krapfl said that the park remains closed but that there is no longer a threat to the public.
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