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The owner and three employees of aNorth Dakota property management companywere identified as victims in what police said was an incident involving multiple homicides.
The victims are RJR Maintenance and Management owner Robert Fakler, 52, and employees Adam Fuehrer, 42, Lois Cobb, 45, and her husband William Cobb, 50.
At a Tuesday press conference, Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler said the investigation so far leads them to believe the killing was “specific to the victims.”
“There is no indication that the public at large is in any danger based upon what we know at the crime scene,” he said.
Ziegler said they have not yet identified a suspect.
“Investigators are working tirelessly to make this happen. And to try to get as much information as we can,” he said.
The police chief declined to comment on whether there were multiple suspects or how the deceased were killed. He did say there were no weapons recovered at the scene.
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“It is very unusual for the state of North Dakota,” Ziegler said. “I don’t think any community across this great country could ever imagine something like this ever happening in their back yard… It is not something that anybody can really comprehend until you are in the middle of it. It is very devastating for a community.”
Lois Cobb was employed as an account specialist at RJR. Her husband, William Cobb, was a maintenance supervisor at the company, according toNBC News.
“I just know that it was an attack,” Lois Cobb’s daughter Briann Miller told theAssociated Press. “I don’t know how it happened, what it happened with. I’m left in the dark still. None of this makes any sense. All I know is my parents are gone.”
Fakler was the owner of RJR Maintenance and Management along with his wife, Jackie.
According to its website, the family-owned business “collected rents, advised, and provided financial statements for our clients” for over 20 years.
“Our hands-on approach to property management gives us a competitive advantage over other companies,” it reads.
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Ann Farrell told the Associated Press that she talked to Fakler the night before the incident. He was “very cheerful, very much in a good mood,” she said.
Farrell’s brother, Rolf Eggers, described his brother as “kind and cheerful,”Associated Pressreports.
Ziegler said Mandan police need the public’s help in identifying the perpetrator.
“Every lead will be followed up with,” said Ziegler. “Anything they have that would be suspicious, something that somebody said. Anything they have seen or had concerns about: tell us. Let us look into it.”
Mandan, a city of 25,000, is located just across the Missouri River from Bismarck, the state capital.
Anyone with information about the quadruple homicide is asked to call the Mandan Police tip line at 701-667-3220.
source: people.com
