Three Dead In Breezy Point Identified

Here’s an update to a story R&J News told you earlier this week.  The deaths of three people at a resort in Breezy Point were a murder-suicide.  Investigators concluded that 59-year-old Michael Charles Toner of Maple Grove shot his girlfriend, 54-year-old Melanie Michele Jansen of Maple Grove and her daughter, 29-year-old Hannah Nicole Parmenter of Elk River before shooting himself in the head.  A statement from Crow Wing County Attorney Donald Ryan gave no details on a possible motive.

The bodies were discovered shortly before 9pm Tuesday at Whitebirch Resort in Breezy Point.  Ryan says police went there after getting a 911 call from Jansen’s son and his wife, who had gone there to visit the women, who had been renting the unit since Friday, September 1. When the son’s knocks went unanswered, he looked through the window and saw a man and a woman on the ground with blood around them and called police.  Autopsies on Wednesday determined that the two women each died of multiple gunshot wounds, while Toner died of a single self-inflicted shot to the head.