Fifteen minutes before the arrival of the year 2018, shots fired at a home in northeastern U.S. state of New Jersey, leaving four people dead and a 16-year-old boy in jail.
Among the dead were the boy’s parents and 18-year-old sister, Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release on Monday.
The fourth dead is a 70-year-old person who lived with the family.
Investigators believe a “Century Arms semiautomatic rifle” was used in the deadly shooting, according to the new release.