A man and two children died in an apparent murder-suicide in unincorporated Routt County south of Steamboat Springs.

Routt County Sheriff’s deputies on Saturday responded to a welfare check in the 21000 block of Fourth Avenue in Phippsburg, a community about 10 miles south of Steamboat Springs, where they found James “Jake” Hill, 45 a 7-year-old child and a 3-year-old child dead, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

Deputies are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide and said there is no danger to the community.

The Routt County Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information about the deaths to contact them.

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