FARMINGTON, Minn. – Responding to a friend’s concern, about a woman who wasn’t answering her phone, police knocked at a townhouse door in Farmington, a south Twin Cities exurb, on a routine welfare check. Blake Maloney, 26, opened the door. Unprodded, according to police, he said: “I did something. I murdered them or something.” Inside police found the bodies of his father, Jack Maloney, 55; Tracy Maloney, 53, his mother; and Scott Maloney, 23, his brother. This was Wednesday. Now Blake Maloney has been charged in Dakota County Court with three counts of murder. The criminal complaint lists no motive, although it notes that Maloney told an officer he didn’t believe the victims were his family. According to a friend, the mother had gone to her ex-husband’s townhome to visit her sons.
Maloney. Police believe weapons were an AR-15 rifle, then a hammer.
A police reconstruction
As police have reconstructed the murders, this according to the criminal complaint is sequence:
> Scott Maloney, the brother, was shot in the head in an upstairs bedroom. There was an AR-15 rifle in the house.
> Jack Maloney, the father, also was shot in the head. His body was on a bed in the basement, covered with blankets.
> Tracy Maloney, the mother, was dead on the blood-covered kitchen floor with a yoga mat over her face. Head injuries likely were from a hammer.
The criminal complaint quoted Blake Maloney that he killed his mother with a hammer because he “did not want to use the gun anymore.”