“There are three juveniles and one of the catalysts for the call is they hadn’t been in school for the last two days”.
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No details of the cause of death have been released.
Siitari said that the situation was tragic but there was no danger to the public.
Greenwood is a tiny village of just a few hundred people about 20 miles west of Minneapolis.
The Greenwood home was owned by AllNurses.com founder Brian Short.
Short, a registered nurse, founded the website allnurses.com in the 90s.
On Friday morning, a moment of silence was held at the school, which all three Short children attended, to mark the tragedy, according to Janet Swiecichowski, a district spokesman. There is no easy way to say this. We just found out this afternoon that Brian and his family have been killed.
An administrator of AllNurses.com posted a notice Thursday night saying the family had been killed and calling it “a very tragic loss for the extended families, friends, co-workers, and this nursing community”.
Brian and his wife Karen were both in their 40s, according to the Pioneer Press.
Neighbors told CNN affiliate KARE they saw no signs of trouble in the family. According to the police, all of the victims suffered “traumatic injuries”. A retired couple, Plocek said the Shorts and their teenage children were always friendly when they bumped into them on the street.
The biography describes Short as a former nursing student and entrepreneur who built and launched the website in the late 1990s when he couldn’t find nursing-related information online. “They were good neighbors”. Short was a Green Bay Packers fan who had a successful Internet business and could talk about any subject. “I can’t believe it”, Smits said.
However, several Twin Cities media outlets reported Friday evening that Brian Short shot his family and then himself.
On Wednesday evening, Plante said she texted Karen Short to ask if Brooklyn was all right.
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The Shorts were like any other family in the suburb of Greenwood, Minn. Sarah Horner can be reached at 651-228-5539.
