Authorities Identify N.C. Family of 5 Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Daniel Hoffman
Updated on February 20, 2026
The group of five, accepted to have been killed in a homicide self destruction in High Point, N.C., have been distinguished by specialists.
Robert J. Crayton, Jr., 45, ended his own life after lethally shooting his better half, 46-year-old Athalia A. Crayton, and several’s three youngsters, 18-year-old Kasin Crayton, and two unidentified children, ages 16 and 10, as indicated by a news discharge from the High Point Police Division.
Police explained the periods of the people in question, expressing that two minors were killed as opposed to three as recently expressed.
Officials made the horrible disclosure in the wake of being directed to the home by a grown-up male and a grown-up female who were “running down the road … shouting that they required help,” soon after 7 a.m. on Jan. 7, High Point Police Capt. Matt Truitt told WFMY.
As indicated by the Greensboro News and Record, specialists later consulted the two individuals who had shouted for help, Truitt said.
One of the two lives in the home and the other individual was a guest, Truitt said.
Authorities Identify N.C. Family of 5 Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
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As per records refered to by Fox 8, authorities had gotten calls to the home in 2014, 2016, 2019, and January 2022.
“Preceding this end of the week’s episode, the latest call to the house was January 3, 2022 when officials served a compulsory mental responsibility request,” the division noted in the delivery.
High Point Police Lt. Patrick Welsh let NBC News know that he accepts Robert was experiencing “some dysfunctional behavior.”
As per specialists, a thought process is as yet being examined, and no extra data will be delivered to safeguard the examination.
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