Parents Dead In Murder Suicide That Left Triplets Orphaned In Philadelphia, MontCo ID'd

Two-year-old triplets were apparently orphaned after their father killed their mother and then himself in an investigation that spanned Philadelphia and Montgomery County, according to police and various news reports.

Stanley Baptiste
Photo Credit: *Philadelphia PD*

Cecilia Levine

12/19/2022 7:39 a.m.

Police responding to an East Haines Street apartment around 8:10 p.m., Dec. 18 on reports of a person screaming found 39-year-old Masiah Larkin inside with multiple gunshot wounds to the head, city police said.

A search was launched for the toddlers, who were found safe, but their 37-year-old dad and suspect, Stanley Baptiste, was found dead with gunshot wound to the head inside of a Lincoln Navigator in Lansdale, authorities said.

Police said the incident was domestic in nature.

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