St. Louis County's Sheriff's Office is now investigating the deaths of two people in Grand Lake Township as a homicide and suicide.
Authorities identified the two people as Loretta Jean Billman, 62, and Robert Eugene Kerr, 55, in a release from the sheriff's office. The incident remains under investigation.
The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office is performing autopsies. Preliminary investigations found that both people sustained gunshot wounds. The sheriff's office has not said which of the two people is believed to have committed the killing.
The two were found dead Monday around 8:34 a.m. at a residence on Ellison Road in Saginaw. After neither showed up for work, relatives and co-workers of the man and woman went to check on them.
To get help
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
- Crisis Text Line: Text MN to 741741
- South St. Louis, Lake, Cook and Carlton counties/Fond du Lac Band: 218-623-1800 or 844-772-4742
- North St. Louis County/Bois Forte Band: 218-288-2100
- Itasca County: 218-326-8565 or 211*
- Koochiching County: 800-442-8565 or 211*
*St. Louis County 211 services are not crisis-related
