APPLE VALLEY, Minn. - Investigators working the murder-suicide of aspiring filmmaker David Crowley and his wife and their 5-year-old daughter said Friday there were no physical signs of a struggle on either of the bodies or in the Apple Valley home where they were fatally shot.
The revelations were among the new information that Apple Valley police released Friday in the deaths of Crowley, 29; his wife, Komel, 28; and their daughter, Raniya.
The Hennepin County medical examiner has ruled that the deaths of Komel and Raniya were homicides, while Crowley died of suicide. Each died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
The medical examiner’s office did not find additional marks or injuries on the bodies that point to a physical struggle before their deaths, Apple Valley police Capt. John Bermel said.
The house was intact, he added.
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“If there was a scuffle, you’d expect to find maybe something broken, maybe something knocked over,” he said. “There was nothing like that.”
All three were shot in a front room and died there close to each other, Bermel said. A handgun was next to David Crowley’s body.
