{"id":57118,"date":"2022-07-02T18:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/bodies-of-3-minnesota-kids-mom-found-in-lake-after-dad-s-suicide"},"modified":"2022-07-02T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:49:03","slug":"bodies-of-3-minnesota-kids-mom-found-in-lake-after-dad-s-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/bodies-of-3-minnesota-kids-mom-found-in-lake-after-dad-s-suicide","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of 3 Minnesota kids, mom found in lake after dad&#8217;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of three young children and their tattoo-artist mom were pulled out of a Minnesota lake Saturday in a family tragedy that unfolded after the kids&#8217; father apparently committed suicide, authorities said.The three children &#8212; two boys and a girl under 5 years old &#8212; and their mother were found in Vadnais Lake near St Paul, the Star Tribune reported. Police are investigating the horrific incident as a homicide.Authorities had yet to release any names, but family and friends of the deceased told the Daily Mail the mother was Molly Cheng, a 23-year-old local tattoo and beauty artist.A man, believed to be the children&#8217;s father, reportedly shot himself at a Maplewood home and was found dead around 10:30 am Friday by authorities.Maplewood Police said that while investigating his death, information from family members led authorities to Vadnais Lake around 4 p.m. to investigate a potential murder-suicide there.Local cops were able to use Cheng&#8217;s cell phone to track down her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of three young children and their tattoo-artist mom were pulled out of a Minnesota lake Saturday in a family tragedy that unfolded after the kids&#8217; father apparently committed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,444],"class_list":["post-57118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-public-safety","tag-tattoo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}