Woman and three kids aged between nine months and 11 are found dead in ‘triple-murder suicide’ in Oklahoma – after another woman was taken hostage sparking hours-long standoff with cops

Four people, including children, are dead in what has been reported as a triple-murder suicide following an hours-long standoff with the police in a small town in Oklahoma.

The incident took place Friday in the town of Verdigris, a town of just over 5,000 people about 20 miles east of Tulsa. 

At around 4 p.m. local time, police received an alert to a woman being held hostage in a garage near Cypress Street and Dogwood Court, according to the Rogers County Sheriff’s Department..

They were able to make contact with the woman, who said that she was being kept by another woman who had a handgun, alongside the hostage-taker’s three children.  

The police officer was able to rescue the woman before calling in for reinforcements, Verdigris Police Chief Jack Shackleford said. 

Four people are dead in what has been reported as a triple-murder suicide following an hours-long standoff with the police in a small town in Oklahoma

The incident took place Friday in the town of Verdigris, a town of just over 5,000 people about 20 miles east of Tulsa

Four people were found dead on Thursday evening, according to the Rogers County Sheriff’s Department

Shackleford noted that they had been to the woman’s house several times in the past for both domestic incidents and mental health calls. 

At around 7:30 p.m., authorities finally entered the woman’s home, where they found her and her three children dead.  

The state police and the local Cherokee Nation SWAT team backed up local police in their efforts.  

The woman and her children have yet to be identified, but the kids are between the ages of nine months and 11 years old. 

The Oklahoma State Bureau Investigation has taken over the investigation, which 2 News Oklahoma reports is a triple-murder suicide following a standoff of over two hours. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Rogers County Sheriff’s Department and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for comment.