SANFORD, NC. (THECOUNT) — Jacelyn Perkins and Jasmine Perkins have been identified as the two adult victims found dead along with a child in a North Carolina home on Friday night.
Harnett County deputies charged Kareem Daquan Taylor, 24, with three counts of first-degree murder after an unidentified child, 22-year-old Jacelyn Perkins and 20-year-old Jasmine Perkins were found dead before 6:30 p.m. Friday inside a Sanford home located in the 140 block of Forest Manor Drive, in Sanford, according to officials.
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Police are actively searching for Taylor who is believed to have committed the killings and then fled the scene.
A child was also found alive in the residence. The condition of the surviving child was not provided by officials.
A manner of death was not provided, however, area residents told local press that they heard gunshots before police arrived on the grisly scene.
Warrants have been obtained for 24-year-old Kareem Daquan Taylor, according to abc11.
Officials say the case is being investigated as a “triple homicide.”
The relationships between the suspect and victims has been confirmed but was not immediately released by authorities.
Anyone with possible information on the case should contact police at 911.
The investigation is ongoing.
Despite the Forest Manor Drive crime scene being technically located in Harnett County, google maps shows Sanford as a city in Lee County, North Carolina.
Sanford is a city in Lee County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 28,518 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Lee County, according to Wikipedia.