4 people found dead in West Bend home, autopsies underway

We begin tonight with a big story at five. The West Bend community is grieving after police found four people dead inside a home. We are learning medical officials have now started conducting autopsies. Our Derontae Matthews live near Washington and Wisconsin Street with the very latest on this story. Derontae. Yeah, Mary and Ted, police have been working the scene all day. In fact, we've seen investigators coming in and out of this home that you can see is still completely covered with crime scene tape. But right in front of it, where these trees are, you can see a memorial that's been growing by the hour. We've been seeing folks coming up here in groups, crying and praying. Many of them have been leaving. Balloons and flowers, you can see a couple of them are coming up right now here to pay their respects. We've also seen a lot of people signing their names on those three wooden hearts that we're told will be updated once the names of those deceased are released. Now, police tell us that this entire incident really started on Saturday when they got a 911 call that alerted them to this home here near Washington and Wisconsin. West Bend police say they found an adult man, an adult woman, a boy. A girl and a dog all dead inside. Another girl inside was taken to the hospital for treatment. Now the medical examiner's office tells us they have started autopsies on four people this morning and those autopsies are being conducted in Milwaukee County. Police also say they found a firearm inside this home on Saturday that they believe to be connected to the incident. Investigators say they believe the suspect was among those deceased. Well, yesterday, two police sources confirmed to us the suspect was a former Milwaukee police officer. Sources say that suspect retired more than a decade ago and the retirement was not duty related. Now, right now, we are not releasing that person's name because the West Bend Police Department has not confirmed his involvement or identity. Yesterday we caught up with friends of the families who say they were really close with one of the daughters. She is just the biggest blessing we could have ever had and we're all going to miss her so much. I will forever cherish this family as it was my own. Now police tell us they are still conducting interviews while those autopsies are being done right now. There is no word on when they will be completed, but once they are done, the medical examiner's office tells us any information will then come from the West Bend Police Department, and they say they hope to have some new details for us either today or possibly tomorrow for now reporting live in West Bend, Derontae, Matthews Fox 6 News.