The Lake County Coroner's Office identified the victims as 27-year-old Briana Payne; and her three girls, 4-year-old Alayna, 6-year-old Ava, and 7-year-old Aurorah. They all died from gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides. The girls' father, 31-year-old Robert Payne, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Briana Payne, 27; Aurorah Payne, 7; Ava Payne, 6; and Alayna Payne, 4, were found dead of gunshot wounds, according to the coroner. Their deaths were all ruled homicides. Robert Payne, 31, also died of gunshot wounds.

Five people, including three children, were found dead inside a home in Lake Station, Indiana, on Friday afternoon, police said.

Police found the bodies inside a home in Lake Station, Indiana Friday afternoon. Lake Station is about 45 minutes south of Chicago in northwest Indiana. According to police, a man shot and killed his wife and three young daughters before killing himself. Neighbors were shocked to hear the entire family is now gone.

Briana Payne's mother says just before she and her daughters were killed, she had told her husband she was planning to file for divorce.

All five people found dead inside a Northwest Indiana trailer home on Friday have been identified. The Lake County Indiana Coroner said they died of gunshot wounds as the result of a murder-suicide.

Authorities in northwest Indiana are offering new details after five people, including three children, were found dead inside a mobile home in Lake Station on Friday afternoon. Authorities said the discovery was made around 2:45 p.

Loved ones, friends and community members came together in northwest Indiana on Friday night to honor a mother and her three daughters who were killed in a murder-suicide.

Five people were found dead after police responded to a welfare check on Friday evening in Lake Station, Indiana, authorities said.

Bailey Elementary teachers fought back tears and emotions Monday as they remembered sisters Aurorah, 7, and Ava Payne, 6, who were found shot to death Friday in their Lake Station mobile home.

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