Police: 6 dead in murder-suicide discovered after fire - WISN Milwaukee

Police said Connor McKisick died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

FOUND EVIDENCE OF ARSON. CAROLINE: THAT IS RIGHT, AND WE ARE STANDING OUTSIDE OF THAT BURNED APARTMENT WHERE A MEMORIAL HAS BEGUN TO GROW AGAINST THAT TREE. THE POLICE CHIEF SAYS THEY DISCOVERED AN IGNITABLE LIQUID IN THE APARTMENT THAT WOULDN’T NORMALLY BE THERE. HE ALSO SAYS THEY RECOVERED MULTIPLE FIREARMS INSIDE. WHAT STARTED AS A TRAGIC APARTMENT FIRE WITH SIX PEOPLE KILLED HAS NOW EVOLVED INTO A MURDER-SUICIDE INVESTIGATION. >> IT IS JUST SO SAD THIS HAPPENED TO A WHOLE FAMILY. CAROLINE: MEMENTOS PLACED OUTSIDE THE TORCHED APARTMENT BUILDING ON MANSFIELD COURT IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED, A PAIR OF 3-YEAR-OLD TWIN BROTHERS, THEIR PARENTS, CONNOR AND JESSICA MCKISICK, AND JESSICA’S DAUGHTERS, 12-YEAR-OLD SOFINA KLEEMEIER AND 14-YEAR-OLD NATALIE KLEEMEIER. ON MONDAY, HARTLAND’S POLICE CHIEF GAVE MORE INSIGHT INTO THE GRUESOME SCENE EARLY LAST FRIDAY. >> ALL SIX OF THE DECEDENT’S HAVE A SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND. CONNOR MCKISICK’S GUNSHOT WOUND HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE SELF INFLICTED. CAROLINE: THE CHIEF SAYS ALONG WITH MULTIPLE FIREARMS, INVESTIGATORS ALSO FOUND AN ACCELERANT INSIDE. CHIEF, WHAT WAS THE IGNITABLE LIQUID YOU WERE REFERENCING JUST NOW? >> THIS IS STILL AN ACTIVE INVESTIGATION. THERE IS A FORENSICS PROCESS IN PROGRESS TO IDENTIFY THOSE LIQUIDS. DEFINITELY A FLAMMABLE LIQUID. CAROLINE: FRIENDS OF THE KIDS KILLED PAYING THEIR RESPECTS MONDAY. >> SOFINA WAS A REALLY GOOD FRIEND OF MY DAUGHTER. WE’RE REALLY GOING TO MISS HER. SHE WAS JUST A NICE, FUN, LOVING GIRL. CAROLINE: REFLECTING ON THE LIVES LOST AS POLICE INVESTIGATE WHY. PATRICK: AND CAROLINE, POLICE SAY THIS WAS A BLENDED FAMILY. CAROLINE: THAT IS RIGHT. THE STEPFATHER OF THE TWO OLDER SIBLINGS, ALL OF THE SIBLINGS HAVE SIBLINGS, AND THEY WERE AL