Murder-Suicide Suspected in Case of Skyview Students Found Dead near the Grand Canyon

The investigation into a motorhome fire that killed two Skyview Community School students and their father suggests the incident was possibly a murder-suicide, according to a National Parks Service press release.

The investigation, "does not suggest the involvement of an unknown party," the release says.

Skyview kindergartener and sixth-grader Jersey and Jace DeHaven and their father, Anthony DeHaven, 35, of Woodbury, were found dead Monday in their recreational vehicle, parked near an entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, the Star Tribune reported.

A family member contacted Woodbury police at about the same time of the fire, the Star Tribune reports, however police asked that details on the call not be released because of the ongoing investigation by the National Parks Service.

A neighbor told the Star Tribune that Anthony DeHaven and the children's mother had been having relationship struggles.

The incident came less than three weeks after a 6-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy who attend the school .

Parent Lisa Machado, president of the elementary school's parent-teacher organization, said she thinks the school has handled the incidents well by giving kids people to talk with and allowing them to leave the classroom if needed.

"They know that everyone's hurting," she said. "Even kids that didn't know them are still really affected by it."

Other neighbors of the family described them as "good, down-to-earth people," the Pioneer Press reports. Anthony DeHaven was, "always smiling, never had anything negative to say," a neighbor said, according to the report.

On Tuesday, officials were still investigating to figure out what caused the fire, a spokeswoman told the Associated Press. Firefighters responded to reports of smoke in the cab of a vehicle south of the entrance to the park, and by the time they arrived on scene, the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames, according to a press release from the National Parks Service.

Skyview Community School students were notified of the deaths Tuesday afternoon, according to a note that went out to parents, quoted by KARE 11. Staff members were on hand Tuesday afternoon to offer support to anyone who needed to talk, according to the report.