UPDATE: Mother, child in extremely critical condition

TABERNACLE — A shooting inside a home along Holly Park Drive sometime between the overnight hours and 9 a.m. Thursday has left a boy and girl dead.

Two others who were wounded in the shooting — an adult female and a 10-year-old child — were airlifted to Cooper University Hospital, in Camden.

The bodies of the young victims were still in the house around 12:15 p.m. when New Jersey State Police provided a briefing.

State police Lt. Stephen Jones called it a "tragic scene."

The ages of the victims and how they are related has yet to be released. The incident was reported by other family members who were in the house at the time, although nobody heard the gunshots. The two who were airlifted out were still breathing when authorities arrived.

"They were a quiet, peaceful family," said Mike Watson, who lives on the street and whose son went to high school with a man in his 20s who may have been living at the house where the shooting took place.

State police could not provide the ages of the victims or where in the house they were found.

As of 10:30 a.m., state police vehicles congregated out front of 39 Holly Park Drive, where the shooting took place. Investigators carrying cameras had white slips covering their shoes as they came and went from the property.

"All the helicopters just left," said Doug Spates, who also lives nearby.

Jones noted that there was no manhunt underway.

Tax records and statements by neighbors indicate a Maureen Lepage and Jeannie Lepage are associated with the address.

"Not out here," one neighbor said of the violence that this quiet Burlington County community woke up to. "It's unheard of."

A press conference is slated for 2 p.m. Updates will be posted as they become available.

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