BREEZY POINT — Investigators believe a double murder-suicide led to the deaths of three people in Breezy Point.
Their bodies were discovered Tuesday, Sept. 5, inside a vacation rental.
The Crow Wing County Attorney’s Office identified 54-year-old Melanie Michele Jansen of Maple Grove, 29-year-old Hannah Nicole Parmenter (Jansen) of Elk River, and 59-year-old Michael Charles Toner of Maple Grove.
Jansen and Parmenter, mother and daughter, suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the manners of death to be homicides, a news release stated.
Toner's cause of death was determined suicide, with a single gunshot wound to the head.
The county attorney’s office reported Toner and Jansen were in a relationship.
The bodies were discovered Tuesday night by the 28-year-old son and brother of the victims, who visited the unit along with his wife at Whitebirch Estates golf resort. When no one answered the door, he looked through the window and saw a man and woman on the floor surrounded by blood. He then called 911.
The Breezy Point Police Department responded to a call for assistance at 8:48 p.m. on the 8400 block of Whitebirch Drive.
The investigation remains ongoing, according to the release, but there is no evidence of any threat to the public.
Assisting in the investigation are the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office.