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A Stafford County man, his wife and their two young daughters all died from gunshot wounds to the head last week in what the Sheriff’s Office is calling a murder–suicide, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond.

Lance Buckley’s death was a suicide, while the deaths of Amy Buckley, 30, Claire Buckley, 5, and Abigail Buckley, 18 months, have been classified as homicides, said Arkuie Williams, state administrator for the chief medical examiner.

The Stafford Sheriff’s Office believes that Lance Buckley, 35, took his own life Thursday morning after killing his wife and daughters at a Windsor Forest home in the northwestern part of the county.

A man called 911 at 8:41 a.m. Thursday to report three murders and a suicide at a home on Wilderness Court, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday. He then identified himself as Lance Buckley and hung up the phone.

After the 911 call, deputies responded to the home and found four bodies on a lower floor, the news release stated.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the incident. The family lived with Lance Buckley’s parents, who owned the home. Authorities have not said where the parents were at the time of the incident.