:dateline:A Sikh family found dead in an Atlanta suburb on Monday morning were the victims of an apparent murder-suicide, police say.
The bodies of Shindiver Grover, 52, his wife Damanjit, 47, and their two sons, Sartag, 12 and Gurtej, 5, were found in their first-floor apartment in Johns Creek, Ga., at around 11:30 a.m. Monday, according to local reports.
Police said one of Damanjit’s co-workers alerted authorities after she didn’t show up for work, local WSBTV reported.
Johns Creek police Chief Ed Densmore described the apartment as a “complicated” crime scene, and they weren’t sure how the victims died.
It didn’t appear that any shots were fired, Densmore said.
The nature of the murder – the city’s first since it was incorporated in 2006 – was troubling to even the most senior investigators, Densmore said.
“We are all human. We�re all parents. We have families,” Densmore said, according to local CBS News.
“You deal with something like this, it will take a little bit out of you, of course.”
Friends who gathered to mourn at the family� Gurdwara, a place of worhip in the Sikh faith, said they couldn’t fathom that Shindiver or Damanjit was responsible.
“With the family values we have in India, with two small kids, I mean, nobody can hurt their own children,” said neighbor Bashir Farishda told WSBTV.
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