BOSTON (CBS) – Police say there is no reason for the community to feel unsafe after four people were found dead Friday at a Groton home in what is being described as a case of “tragic family violence.”

Orion Krause, 22, was arrested and will be charged with four counts of murder after a man and three women were found dead at a home on Common Street.

Three bodies were found inside the home and a fourth was discovered outside.

The identities of the victims have not been released.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said the victims were an elderly man and woman, along with two middle-aged women.

All four people died from blunt trauma. Ryan said investigators have found what they believe was the murder weapon.

“I just want to reiterate what the district attorney said and assure people in the area that there is no cause for alarm,” said Groton Police Chief Groton Police Chief Donald Palma. “This was not a random act. We do believe at this point that the people were all connected and had relationships. The town is safe as it pertains to this particular incident.”

Neighbor Wagner Alcocer said he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Alcocer said he saw a naked man standing at his back door Friday evening. He said the man was covered in mud, asking for help.

Alcocer said Krause told him, “I need help, I need help. I murdered four people.”

“I asked him ‘Where are your clothes?’ and he said he left them in the woods,” Alcoc

He says he gave Krause a blanket and told him to wait outside on the chair. Krause wrapped himself in the blanket and sat on the chair.

“He was extremely calm and never raised his voice. He surrendered himself. He did what I asked and followed instructions,” Alcocer said.

He adds that he thought the victims were nice people.

“We have seen them going up the street a very nice elderly people beautiful home with gorgeous garden,” Alcocer said.

Friends stopped by the scene of the murders Saturday morning.

Flowers left at the end of the driveway of house where 4 people were killed in Groton. pic.twitter.com/68eDSeKcv7 — Doug Cope (@dcopewbz) September 9, 2017

“They’re a nice family trying to keep their parents at home and enjoy themselves in their last years. It’s just hard to really fathom it. I can’t get my heard around how anyone could do that,” said one woman who stopped at the home to leave flowers.

Another said, “We’re all touched by this in some way.”

Groton selectman Josh Degen said on Facebook a vigil will be held Sunday on Town Field, located behind Groton Public Library.

“We live in a small tight-knit community and must all work through this tragedy together,” he wrote.

Krause is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Doug Cope reports </s> LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Lafayette police arrested an 18-year-old man on a murder charge after he entered a home and violated a protection order.

According to the Lafayette Police Department, an 18-year-old woman called police to report that 18-year-old Talmadge Jasper had entered her residence on Kenosha Court. The woman has a valid protection order barring Jasper from contacting her.

As police continued their investigation, they determined an adult male who also lives at the home was missing. Police obtained a search warrant and searched Jasper’s apartment on Eagles Way Drive, where they found the missing man dead.

Police arrested Jasper on charges of murder, residential entry and invasion of privacy.

Identification of the victim is pending notification of family. An autopsy will determine the cause and manner of death. </s> Authorities in the city of Everett, Washington have arrested an 18-year-old after a tip off from his grandmother led them to believe he was planning to shoot his classmates.

Police said that on Tuesday 13 February a grandmother in Everett called 911 because she believed her grandson was planning on shooting students at ACES high school in the city.

Officers attended the grandmother's house, the city's police department said, where they were shown excerpts from the teenager's journal.

The journal so alarmed the officers that the high school was contacted to alert them to the threat that the teenager might pose.

Police said that the journal detailed plans to shoot students and use homemade explosive devices at the facility, they were also said to be alarmed by statements made in the journal.

The grandmother had also reported that her grandson had a rifle which was stored in a guitar case. The grandson was arrested at the school.

Police said that on his person during the arrest officers found marijuana and a knife. Authorities said that he was booked into Snohomish County Jail on probable cause for attempted murder "due to planning and taking substantial steps toward executing a school shooting."

Major Crimes Unit detectives served a search warrant at the grandmother's house to seize the journal, rifle and military style inert grenades, along with other evidence.

America continues to discuss gun culture and control in the country after a shooting at a Florida high school killed at least 17 people. Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a report that 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz had confessed to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Cruz's attorney told reporters that he was remorseful and is aware of what is going on but that he's a "broken human being". </s> A St. Louis-area man shot his girlfriend, her two young children and her mother in the home they all shared, authorities said Saturday.

A St. Louis-area man shot his girlfriend, her two young children and her mother in the home they all shared, authorities said Saturday.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area man shot to death his girlfriend, her two young children and her mother in the home they all shared, authorities said Saturday. He exchanged gunfire with officers as he fled and was captured several hours later in a convenience store, covered in blood and wounded.

Prosecutors filed 15 charges against Richard Darren Emery of St. Charles, Missouri, including first-degree murder, assault and attempted robbery. Authorities said Emery, 46, abandoned his own pickup and tried unsuccessfully to steal a woman’s car while on the run, attacking her as well.

Emery remained in a local hospital with two gunshot wounds that authorities said did not appear self-inflicted and most likely came from the shootout with officers. St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar said investigators did not know the motive for the shootings as of Saturday evening.

“We may never know,” Lohmar said during a news conference. “This one in particular was the worst example of a domestic violence case. Anytime you have a domestic violence case you worry about the safety of the victim, and this would be your worst nightmare.”

St. Charles is a city of about 70,000 residents on the Missouri River northwest of St. Louis. Officials said it’s had of spate of deadly domestic violence incidents recently — with six deaths in the past eight days that Lohmar said are unrelated.

Officials said police received a call just before midnight Friday about a shooting at the house where Emery and the victims lived. Lohmar said officers later found three victims dead of gunshot wounds in one bedroom. They were Zoe Kasten, 8; her brother, Jonathan Kasten, 10; and their grandmother, Jane Moeckel, 61.

Officers found the fourth victim, a 39-year-old woman, in the home’s master bedroom, suffering from gunshot wounds but still alive, Lohmar said. She was taken to an area hospital, where she died.

Authorities did not name the fourth victim but described her as the children’s mother, the daughter of the older woman and Emery’s girlfriend.

The initial call came to police came from inside the house, and Lohmar said investigators believe Moeckel made it.

“During that phone call, the 911 operator could hear gunshots in the background,” St. Charles Police Lt. Tom Wilkison said.

Lohmar said Emery attempted to flee in his pickup and was stopped by a police car. He and the officers exchanged shots, and he fled on foot.

Authorities described his attempt to steal another vehicle as a carjacking and said she stabbed its female driver seven times. They said her injuries were not life-threatening.

The area is wooded, and Lohmar said Emery was able to elude police in the dark. But when he sought shelter in the bathroom of the convenience store a few miles away, an employee contacted police, Lohmar said.

Each of the charges against Emery carries a possible penalty of 30 years to life in prison, Lohmar said, adding that more charges are possible and seeking the death penalty is an option under Missouri law.

“It’s premature for us to make any sort of pronouncement about that right now, but I can tell you this thing looks and smells like a death penalty case,” he said.

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This version of the story corrects the direction of St. Charles from St. Louis in the second paragraph </s> (CNN) An Ohio family carefully studied the habits of members of another family -- their routines, the layouts of their homes and where they slept -- as they planned a deadly massacre that stunned a rural town, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The eight victims -- who ranged in age from 16 to 44 -- were found shot to death at four crime scenes in and around the small town of Piketon on April 22, 2016. At one scene, police found a 4-day-old baby next to his slain mother. That child, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, survived.

The suspects "spent months planning the crime," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. But they made mistakes, DeWine said.

More than two years later, authorities arrested four members of the Wagner family Tuesday in connection with killing the members of the Rhoden family. Two grandmothers of the Wagner family were also charged in an alleged cover-up of the crime, DeWine said.

He declined to identify a motive but said custody of a child "plays a role in this case."

Read More </s> Police in Ohio have arrested an 18-year-old man who they say stabbed to death his grandmother - who was the mother of a local serial killer - and injured three young relatives in a nighttime attack at the woman's home in Cleveland.

Cleveland police have identified the deceased victim as 62-year-old Diane Madison. She succumbed to her wounds at the scene on Saturday.

Diane Madison was the mother of Michael Madison, a convicted sex offender who was found guilty in 2016 of murdering three women and sentenced to death.

The murder suspect, 18-year-old Jalen Plummer, was arraigned early Monday morning on charges of aggravated murder and felonious assault, and had his bond set at $2million, reported Cleveland.com.

Plummer is accused of repeatedly stabbing his 12-year-old brother, 10-year-old sister and 10-year-old cousin, who were all taken to Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital for treatment.

One of the young victims is Michael Madison's child, reported Fox 8 Cleveland.

Police say Plummer entered the bedrooms of the sleeping children at the residence in the 19000 block of Chickasaw Avenue at around 12.15am on Saturday.and began stabbing them.

The two girls managed to flee and ask neighbors for help. Officers found the boy hiding inside the home.

Police were were called to the scene found the 18-year-old suspect covered in blood in the shower inside his grandmother's house. Plummer was then taken to a hospital to be treated for cuts to his hand.

Michael Madison - who registered as a sex offender in 2002 when he was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted rape - was apprehended at his mother's home in East Cleveland July 2013 after a two-hour standoff.

His arrest came after the decomposing bodies of Angela Deskins, 38, Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and 18-year-old Shirellda Terry were found wrapped in garbage bags secured with tape near his apartment.

Madison said at the time he admired local serial killer Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler, who remains on death row in Ohio for the murders of 11 women.

During his trial, Madison's defense lawyers told the jury his mother, Diane, abused him as a child. </s> SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The Latest on the investigation after a missing woman was found chained inside a storage container (all times local):

A coroner is working to identify the body found on property in rural South Carolina where a woman was found chained in a storage container.

Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger says the body was exhumed Friday night and taken to the morgue. It remained unclear Saturday when the body would be identified.

Police vehicles could be seen going back and forth across the property. An Anderson police officer put two bouquets of flowers in the fence Saturday.

Todd Christopher Kohlhepp is charged with kidnapping after authorities found a woman Thursday chained at her neck and ankle in a storage container. Prosecutor Barry Barnette says the woman saw her captor shoot and kill her boyfriend, who went with her for a cleaning job on the suspect's property.

The man accused of chaining a woman in a storage container for weeks had a violent past and was "preoccupied with sexual content" from a young age.

That's according to details emerging as investigators search his rural property for bodies.

Teams digging on the property found one body Friday and feared there could be more.

Prosecutor Barry Barnette says the woman saw her captor shoot and kill her boyfriend, who went with her for a cleaning job on the suspect's property. The body discovered Friday was not immediately identified.

Todd Christopher Kohlhepp is charged with kidnapping. The 45-year-old registered sex offender has a previous kidnapping conviction in Arizona. More charges are expected.

Barnette said that in the Arizona case, Kohlhepp kidnapped a 14-year-old girl, bound her and raped her in 1986. Online prison records show he served about 14 years for the felony. He was released in 2001. </s> An Ohio family carefully studied the habits of members of another family -- learning their routines, the layouts of their homes, and where they slept -- before planning a deadly massacre that stunned a rural town, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The eight victims -- who ranged in age from 16 to 44 -- were found shot to death at four crime scenes in and around the small town of Piketon on April 22, 2016. At one crime scene, police found a 4-day-old baby lying next to his slain mother. That child, along with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old, survived the killings.

The suspects "spent months planning the crime," Ohio State Attorney General Mike DeWine said. But they made mistakes, DeWine said.

More than two years later, authorities arrested four members of the Wagner family on Tuesday in connection with killing the members of the Rhoden family. Two grandmothers of the Wagner family were also charged in the alleged cover-up of the crime, DeWine said.

He declined to identify a motive, but said custody of a child "plays a role in this case."

"We believe that the Wagners conspired together to develop an elaborate plan to kill the eight victims under the cover of darkness and then carefully cover up their tracks," DeWine said. "The killers knew the territory and meticulously planned these murders."

George "Billy" Wagner III, 47; his wife Angela Wagner, 48; and their sons, George Wagner IV, 27; and Edward "Jake" Wagner, 26, were indicted on Monday by a Pike County grand jury on several offenses, including eight counts each of aggravated murder with death penalty specifications.

Authorities: One suspect had fathered a child with victims

Edward "Jake" Wagner was also charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor for having sexual contact with one victim, Hanna May Rhoden when she was 15 years old and he was 20 years old, prosecutors said.

He is the father of Hanna May Rhoden's older daughter, who was staying with the Wagners on the night of the killings, prosecutors said.

The Wagners are also accused of forging custody documents, prosecutors said.

"There certainly was obsession with custody, obsession with control of children," DeWine said.

The Wagners are from South Webster, about a 30-mile drive southeast of Piketon, the community in and around where the killings happened.

Angela Wagner's mother, Rita Newcomb, 65, of South Webster, Ohio, and Wagner's mother-in-law, Fredericka Wagner, 76, of Lucasville, also face felony charges of obstructing justice and perjury for allegedly misleading investigators, prosecutors said.

The six are in custody in Ohio and Kentucky, authorities said.

In addition to Hanna May Rhoden, 19, those who died included Kenneth Rhoden, 44; his brother Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; and Christopher's ex-wife Dana Rhoden, 37. Also killed were three of the Rhodens' children, Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, 20, and Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16. Other victims were Hannah Gilley, 20, who was engaged to Clarence "Frankie" Rhoden, and Gary Rhoden, 38, a cousin.

Piketon is a town of about 2,000 residents, about 80 miles east of Cincinnati.

There were no witnesses to the shooting but the suspects left traces, authorities said.

"They left a trail: The parts to build a silencer, the forged documents, the cameras, cell phones -- all that they tampered with, and the lies," Pike County Sheriff Charles S. Reader told reporters.

At request of prosecutors, a judge formed an investigative grand jury in July to meet regularly to examine evidence collected and gather additional evidence, according to DeWine. Investigators discovered a key piece of evidence on October 30, the attorney general said.

Since 2016, investigators conducted more than 500 interviews and followed more than 1,100 leads during the investigation, which took them to 10 states, including Alaska. The Wagners lived in Alaska before recently moving back to Pike County, the attorney general said.

The Wagners had been "the prime suspects for some time," DeWine said, though he declined to say when the family was identified as suspects.

"We promised that the day would come when arrests would be made in the Pike County massacres," said DeWine, who won the governor's race last week. "Today is that day." </s> A teen stabbed a serial killer’s mother to death then slashed three children, including the killer’s daughter, as they slept, police say.

Authorities say Jaylen Latrell Plummer, 18, killed Diane Madison, 62, and stabbed the two ten-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy on Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio.

Madison is the mother of Michael Madison, now 41, who was sentenced to death in 2016 after he was convicted of killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.

One of the victims injured was Michael Madison’s child, Fox News reported. Plummer is reportedly related to the victims. Authorities say he is Diane Madison’s grandson and two of his victims were his brothers. The children were taken to Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

Authorities say two of the children were able to run for help during the attack.

Plummer appeared in court on Monday with bandages wrapped around his hands and pleaded not guilty to murder.

Police say they found him in the shower at his home with cuts on his hands.They have not yet released a motive and he is being held on $2 million bond.

During Michael Madison’s trial, his lawyers said his mother abused him while he was a child. They accused her of forcing food down his throat before making him vomit, Cleveland.com reported.

Defense lawyers also claimed she beat him with an extension cord, scalded him with boiling water, and let one of her boyfriends beat him so badly he lost his hearing.

Michael Madison was sentenced to execution for the strangling deaths of Shirrellda Terry, 18, Shetisha Sheeley, 28, and Angela Deskins, 38.

As Madison was sentenced, Terry’s father, Van Terry, lunged at the convicted killer, leaping over a desk and incited chaos in the courtroom before he was subdued by authorities and bystanders.
In Groton, Massachusetts, Orion Krause is arrested for killing his mother, grandparents, and a caretaker in their home. Authorities believe the killings were an act of domestic violence.