'They're both gone,' says Lakeland murder-suicide 911 caller

"They're both gone," the caller said through tears.

"What do you mean they're both gone?" a Washington County dispatcher asked.

"I just came and I found them."

"Are they..."

"They're both dead."

The call came into the county's dispatch center shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A man had walked up a steep path in the dark woods of Lakeland's Humphries Park and found the bodies of Jacob Zachary Campbell, 14, and Lisa Marie Grijalva, 15, who died in an apparent murder-suicide.

Out of breath, the man called 911 and frantically tried to explain where he was and what had happened.

Released Friday by the Washington County sheriff's office, the 911 transcript was redacted to protect the identity of the man who found the teens' bodies. Sheriff Bill Hutton said the caller asked to remain anonymous.

At one point he told the dispatcher that he lives just a block from the park and that his vehicle was at the park entrance.

The man cried throughout the conversation, and many portions of the call are marked as inaudible.

"Do you know how they did this?" the dispatcher asked.

"Shotgun," the caller said.

A moment later he tells the dispatcher, "I just touched her throat."

"OK."

"Touched ..."

"Shotgun to the head?"

"Both of them ..." the man said.

The Ramsey County medical examiner reported concluding Thursday that Campbell shot Grijalva before turning the shotgun on himself.

The dead were ninth-graders at Oak-Land Junior High School in Lake Elmo. Their deaths rattled classmates, who gathered Wednesday at Humphries Park to honor them.

Campbell's home is less than a block from the park.

His family said in a statement Thursday that he "was a cheerful spirit" who liked to play Ultimate Frisbee and that "family was of utmost importance" to him.

Grijalva, who lived in Oak Park Heights, was remembered by friends as fun and outgoing. She was a good soccer player and "so fast" in track, they said.

Grijalva's family declined to comment.