Woman ‘grieving the loss’ of toddler daughter and partner to murder-suicide in Twin Cities home

A man fatally shot his 2-year-old daughter and then himself in a Minneapolis home overnight, officials said Monday.

Minneapolis police said officers went to the home in the 2900 block of Colfax Avenue N. about 12:20 a.m. Monday and found the man and his daughter dead from gunshot wounds.

The girl’s mother was in the home and not physically harmed, police said.

“This is an unimaginable, heartbreaking tragedy,” read a statement from Police Chief Brian O’Hara. “Our hearts are with the child’s mother as she faces an overwhelming loss, and with the officers and investigators who responded to such a devastating scene.”

Officials haven’t released the identities of the father or the girl, but the child’s mother identified them as Kinsley Prinsen and 50-year-old Scott Joseph Devery.

“I’m the mother of my beautiful angel, Kinsley Prinsen, who was fatally shot and killed by her father, and then he killed himself in front of me,” Trisha Ann Prinsen posted on an online fundraising page she started to help with funeral and other expenses. “I’m trying to deal with this one minute at a time, grieving the loss of my beautiful 2-year-old daughter and the loss of my significant other.”