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[h=4]Father, 7 children die; carbon monoxide suspected[/h]7 of 8 victims are juveniles, police say.
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Chief Scott Keller addresses an investigation of seven children and one adult found dead Monday, April 6 in Princess Anne. Also, a coworker with the adult victim explains the events leading up to the police report. Produced by Joe Lamberti
Authorities investigate the death of eight people found Monday in this home Princess Anne. Police said carbon monoxide is the preliminary cause of the incident.(Photo: Joey Gardner, Joey Gardner)
SOMERSET, Md. — A father and his seven children died Monday afternoon from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a home on Antioch Avenue, emergency officials said.
Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said the juvenile victims ranged from 6 to 16 years old. No age was given for the adult male.
The children's mother was notified of their deaths, but because police needed to contact more relatives, the victims' names have not been released.
Keller said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore will make final determination on cause of death. There was no sign of foul play, he said.
Chief Scott Keller details the investigation of seven children and one adult found dead in a residence on Antioch Avenue on Monday afternoon in Princess Anne.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Staff photo by Joe Lamberti)
Keller said police were sent to the home at the 30500 block of Antioch Avenue at about 1 p.m. ET Monday to check on the adult male victim, who had not shown up for work. A co-worker filed a police report, asking officers to check on the family.
Stephanie Wells, food service supervisor at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, was the unnamed adult victim's supervisor. She said she last saw him March 28, which was the last day anyone had spoken to any of the victims.
The man had worked in dining services at the university since August 2014.
Wells said he was a nice and helpful person who would always talk about his kids. "He was my big teddy bear," she said.
When the employee didn't come into work Saturday and didn't call as he usually would, Wells became concerned. And although she contacted police, she said wasn't expecting the sad outcome.
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Inside the victims' home, police said, they found a gas generator in the kitchen that had run out of fuel. The house did not have electricity. "You can draw your own conclusions," Keller said.
When police entered the dwelling, they could tell something was wrong.
"They knew they weren't going to find any live people in there," Keller said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unintentional exposure to carbon monoxide caused an average of 430 deaths a year nationwide between 1999 and 2010. Maryland averaged 1.43 deaths per 1 million people from the gas from 1999 to 2004, while the national rate was 1.53 deaths.
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A 2006 gas leak at an Ocean City hotel took the lives of a father and a daughter, who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. The Ocean City Town Council amended its 2007 law mandating carbon monoxide detectors in hotels and condo buildings, removing an exemption that allowed some units not to have them.
Sheets are held as a body is removed from an Antioch Avenue residence where police say seven children and their father were found dead Monday afternoon in Princess Anne.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Staff photo by Joe Lamberti)
Onlookers gathered and consoled each other on Antioch Avenue and Beckford Avenue as police began removing the eight bodies from the home Monday afternoon.
Emergency officials said crisis counselors will be spread throughout the Somerset County Public School system this week to help with grieving students.
Contributing: Jeremy Cox, The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times
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