Bourbon County News

Authorities say a mother and her 5-year-old daughter whose bodies were found after a house fire outside Fort Scott died from gunshot wounds as part of a double murder-suicide. The woman's husband was found in a vehicle outside the home, dead of a self-inflicted injury.

Authorities say a mother and her 5-year-old daughter whose bodies were found after a house fire in rural southeastern Kansas died from gunshot wounds, victims of a double murder-suicide. The Bourbon County Sheriff's office said Monday that autopsies determined 30-year-old Terry Lynn Prestley and her daughter died from gunshot wounds.

TV reports the Bourbon County sheriff's office confirmed Friday that the bodies of a child and an adult were found Thursday in the wreckage of the home near Fort Scott.

The Kansas Highway Patrol said a Chevy Trailblazer and Jeep Patriot were headed southbound on U-69, about six miles south of Fort Scott.