TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) – A shooting at a home in a secluded wooded area of southern New Jersey left two children dead and a woman and another child wounded, state police said Thursday.
State police received a report of multiple shootings in the home on Holly Park Drive after 9 a.m. Thursday, Trooper Alina Spies said.
Inside the home, troopers found a boy and a girl dead. The injured woman and boy were taken to Cooper Hospital, where they were in critical condition, according to hospital spokeswoman Lori Shaffer.
The names and ages of the dead and the wounded were not immediately available.
The Burlington County community is located in the sparsely populated New Jersey Pinelands, about 30 miles east of Philadelphia.