UPDATE: MN man dies in double murder-suicide in Florida
Photo credit: Marion County Sheriff's Office
(KMSP) - Authorities in Marion County, Florida, are investigating an attempted double murder-suicide involving a Minnesota man and Wisconsin woman Saturday morning in the Ocala National Forest.
Deputies responded to the area of Forest Road 88, about two miles north of East State Road 40, after receiving a call from a passerby that discovered the scene shortly before 11 a.m.
Authorities found a woman and a "toddler-aged female both deceased from an apparent gunshot wound," according to a release.
They also found a man - identified as the shooter - suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound but still alive. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. He has been identified as 27-year-old Kevin Benjamin Olesen Farias of Waconia, Minnesota.
The woman has been identified as 32-year-old Jessica L. Johnson of Wisconsin.