Five people, including shooter, dead after shootings in Ontario's Sault Ste. Marie

The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service says officers first discovered the body of a 41-year-old around 10:20 p.m. Monday after someone called to report a break-and-enter at a home.

They say the shooter appeared to have fled and about 10 minutes later, police received another call for someone with a weapon at a home about three kilometres north from the previous residence.

Police say they found three children aged six, seven and twelve dead in that second home and a 45-year-old who was injured with a gunshot wound.

They say officers also found the 44-year-old shooter, who appeared to have died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police say the deaths are the result of intimate partner violence and say the loved ones of those who died are facing unimaginable grief.