Two adults and two children were killed in a house fire Tuesday night, police confirmed.
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Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner, Comcast, customers with access to News 12. Lyndon Beharry worked as a mechanic for the city’s public works department. No details about those wounds were provided by the prosecutor. The fire did not appear to be accidental.
The finding raising the possibility of a murder-suicide in the family’s death. Some of their injuries were unrelated to the fire, LeMieux said.
It is not clear what sparked the overnight blaze in Monmouth County. “They lived very happily”, Ronald Beharry, who was also a neighbor, told the newspaper.
Police say they arrived to the scene first, but had trouble getting into the home.
Firefighters responded to the home on the 200 block of Joline Ave.in Long Branch just before midnight.
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The fire was contained to the interior of the home with only minor exterior damage, however, reports have it that it looks to have started in more than one area of the house.
