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   From: typical.negro.behavior@nytimes.com   
      
   Jennifer Laber was last seen on Tuesday afternoon, when she   
   walked out of Bear Canyon Elementary School in Highlands Ranch,   
   Colo., with her sons, Adam and Ethan.   
      
   An image, clipped from surveillance camera footage, shows the   
   two Laber boys, one sporting a backpack, the other trailing   
   behind him in a blue and black coat.   
      
   The mother and her sons were reported missing hours later, on   
   Tuesday night. Authorities released a description of the two   
   boys and the mother. They also released information on the   
   minivan that Jennifer Laber was last seen driving, a silver   
   Chrysler Town & Country.   
      
   The next day, though, the silver van was spotted parked outside   
   a closed sports equipment store in Lone Tree, about five miles   
   from Highlands Ranch. And inside the vehicle were the bodies of   
   Jennifer Laber, Adam, 3, and Ethan, 5.   
      
   “We certainly did not see this horrific ending that this case   
   has come to today,” said Chief Deputy Steve Johnson of the   
   Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, according to the Denver Post.   
   “We do not have a lot of answers.”   
      
   “It’s about as bad as it gets,” family spokesperson and neighbor   
   Brandon Tartler told KUSA-TV.   
      
   “Adam and Ethan were little bundles of energy,” Andrew Pena,   
   another neighbor, told the Denver Post. “They were full of life   
   and really smart. This is a real tragedy.”   
      
   Few details about the deaths and subsequent investigation were   
   released Wednesday, in the hours after the bodies were   
   discovered. But police in a news release said that preliminary   
   information suggested there was “no danger to public at this   
   time.” Authorities also said the boys’ father wasn’t a suspect   
   in the case.   
      
   By Thursday, however, the circumstances surrounding the deaths   
   became a bit more clear: Police said at a press conference that   
   on Tuesday, at about 12: 30 p.m., Jennifer Laber purchased a new   
   handgun at a local gun shop. Between 1:30 and 2 p.m. on the same   
   day, Laber picked up her children from their schools, Lone Tree   
   Police Department public information officer Tim Beal said.   
      
   “A proper background check protocol was followed,” Beals said of   
   the purchase of the gun, which was later located in the minivan.   
      
   Preliminarily autopsy results show that Jennifer Laber died from   
   a single gunshot wound, which evidence suggests was self-   
   inflicted, Beals said. Adam and Ethan each died from a single   
   gunshot wound, preliminary autopsy results indicated. The manner   
   of death in all three cases was still pending.   
      
   The Denver Post reported that authorities were not calling the   
   incident a murder-suicide on Thursday, but have said there were   
   no suspects.   
      
   “We’re just not ready to put that label on it yet,” Beals said,   
   according to the newspaper.   
      
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