Mass Slaying Likely a Murder-Suicide, Authorities Say

Jun 11, 06:50 PM

Current Headlines: DELAVAN, Wis. _ Investigators trying to piece together the events leading up to the killing of six people in this resort town believe the mass slaying is likely the result of a murder-suicide, authorities said Monday.

Still, police want to analyze DNA, blood spatters and other evidence before ruling out any other possible cause of the carnage, Walworth County District Attorney Phillip Koss said.

"There's other theories we have to look at or will, before we can make a definitive statement on it," Koss said following a news conference in Delavan, where Saturday's deaths of four adults and two infant twin brothers shocked residents of the small town 75 miles northwest of Chicago.

Meanwhile, the medical condition of the seventh gunshot victim _ a 2-year-old girl named Jasmine _ was upgraded Monday afternoon from serious to good by doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.

She was found inside an automobile parked outside the 2nd Street apartment building where the six dead victims were discovered Saturday night. Jasmine suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said.

Koss said DNA, ballistics tests and other evidence would be examined thoroughly before police can say what exactly may have happened inside the apartment building.

Relatives of some of the victims, however, said police had told them they suspect Amborosio Analco, 23, killed his two infant children, the children's mother, the children's aunt and a family friend before fatally shooting himself.

Earlier Monday, police identified the twin boys as Argenis Analco and Isaiah Christian Analco. Also found dead in the home was the boys' mother, Nicole Marie McAffee, 19; McAffee's sister Ashley Lynn Huerta, 21; and Vanessa L. Iverson, 19, a friend visiting McAffee when the shootings occurred.

Vanessa Iverson's sister-in-law Katie Iverson said relatives had hoped to receive more information from police before they could feel certain Analco was the killer.

Another man, whose identity has not been released by police, reportedly jumped out a window of the second-story apartment where the shootings took place and called police around 10:35 p.m. CDT Saturday. Police interviewed and released that man without seeking charges.

Authorities are expected to release a copy of the 911 call to police later Monday.

Relatives of Vanessa Iverson were among several people who gathered Monday morning outside the apartment building, where a makeshift memorial of teddy bears, stuffed bunnies, a dinosaur and candles was erected under a tree.

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