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Apparent Murder, Suicide in Farmington Hills

FARMINGTON HILLS (WWJ) - A Farmington Hills man and his young child are dead in a case of an apparent murder-suicide.

WWJ's Beth Fisher drove to the Green Hills apartment complex Sunday morning, where the tragedy occurred, and found it quiet there. But overnight, a 34-year-old man, with a divorce pending, apparently killed himself and his 22-month-old baby.

Murder Suicide Farm Hills Neigh Kim Thomas 10-23-11
Neighbor of the victims, Kim Thomas.

Kim Thomas, her husband and baby were forced to evacuate by police. "I felt really panicked, actually," Thomas said. "You know, in the middle of the night ... just getting out the bed, we got the baby. I don't know, and it's like you don't know who you are living around. You don't know what's going on in the neighborhood. That's what I was kinda thinking."

Thomas was sorry to hear the man killed his child, and she hopes to move soon.

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