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Published November 20, 2012, 11:58 AM

Sheriff identifies man who killed self with knife, person of interest in New Town slayings

NEW TOWN (AP) — A man who killed himself with a knife in front of law enforcement officers and has been called a “person of interest” in the slayings of a New Town woman and three of her grandchildren has been identified.

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    AP Photo A stuffed bear is placed on a white picket fence on Monday in New Town, where a woman and her three grandchildren were murdered in in the home on Sunday.

NEW TOWN (AP) — A man who killed himself with a knife in front of law enforcement officers and has been called a “person of interest” in the slayings of a New Town woman and three of her grandchildren has been identified.

Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson identified the man as 21-year-old Kalcie Eagle of New Town. Halvorson says Eagle killed himself in front of a deputy and a highway patrolman on Sunday night in Parshall.

Halvorson says authorities are still trying to determine what role — if any— Eagle played in the shooting deaths Sunday of 64-year-old Martha Johnson and three of her grandchildren.

FBI spokesman Kyle Loven declined comment, citing the ongoing investigation.

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