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A man who expressed thoughts about suicide and was briefly hospitalized returned home on Memorial Day and fatally shot his wife, her father and her stepmother before killing himself, police said.

Officers responding to a report of gunshots on Monday afternoon found the four people dead in the bedroom of a home just outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 

Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh said 29-year-old Sean Ganey shot his wife, Cassidy Ganey, 25; her father, Kenny Adair, 55; her stepmother, Shelly Lorenz-Adair, 48; and then himself. 

Sean Ganey killed his wife Cassidy, her father and step-mom before turning the gun on himself on Monday at the couple's home outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The couple are pictured above with their five-year-old daughter, who was present for the triple-murder suicide but was unharmed

Cassidy's father Kenny and step-mom Shelly are pictured above. All four bodies were found in an upstairs bedroom 

Police stormed the family's home Monday afternoon and quickly removed the daughter from the home 

The Ganeys' five-year-old daughter was present but unharmed. Fitzhugh says she was 'quickly moved out' of the home.

Deputies were first called to the home on Rivercrest Drive in Walter Hill on Friday, for a report of a man making a suicide threat. 

Officers took Sean Ganey to a hospital and removed what they believed to be all the weapons of the home.  

Cops first came to the home on Friday, after Ganey expressed suicidal thoughts 

On Friday, cops took Ganey to the hospital and took away his guns. It's unclear how he got another in the time between his Friday hospitalization and the triple-murder suicide on Monday 

Between then and Monday, he left the hospital and obtained a fun which he used to shoot his wife and her two relatives before killing himself around 3:30pm on Monday. 

Cops are working to determine what happened between the time they admitted Ganey to the hospital on Friday and the triple-murder suicide on Monday. 

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'We took care of the situation,' Fitzhugh said. 'He was transported to the hospital and under the investigation, we're trying to find out what took place after that once we dropped him off at the hospital'

'There was a search made at the home and all of the weapons at that time that we could find were removed by family members on Friday,' Fitzhugh added. 'Of course as you know, anybody that's that serious about getting a weapon, they're gonna get one. You do the best you can.' 

Cops say Ganey and his wife (pictured together above) may have been headed for divorce 

It's unclear why Cassidy's father, left, and step-mom, right, were at the home at the time

The Ganeys' daughter is now in protective custody. The family of three pictured above before Monday's tragedy 

It's unclear how Ganey got the weapon used in the killings.

Authorities said they were trying to piece together the sequence of events that led to the fatal shootings. They said marital strife may be to blame.

'We do think that there may have been a possibility of a divorce or at least comment of a divorce that may have led to this,' the sheriff said.

He continued: 'The events that led to this I think are very tragic. It's a terrible outcome to a situation that we see far too often. It's something that we don't like to see.' 

• For confidential help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or click here

• For confidential support on suicide matters in the UK, call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here 

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