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UPDATE: Police Arrest Two Men in Connection with Shooting at Owensboro Home

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UPDATE:

The Owensboro Police Department charged Arnett Baines, 30, and Cylar Shemwell, 31, Friday with three counts of murder and one count of first degree assault in connection with the shooting deaths of three people Thursday. Police also released the identities of the shooting victims. The three dead men are Jay Michael Sowders, 43, Robert Smith, 35, and Christopher Carie, 18.

Carmen Vanegas, 35, was being treated at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. No further information about the possible motive behind the shootings has been released.

Original story

Police were trying to determine who killed three people and wounded another in a shooting Thursday at a home in Daviess County.

Investigators had not yet established a motive that led to the shooting in Owensboro, police said. Nor had they identified the shooter.

"We believe, at this point, that this is an isolated incident," Owensboro police spokesman Andrew Boggess said. "But as to who the suspect may be or what the exact motive is, I can't speak to that at this point."

All the victims were adults but authorities didn't know if they were related, he said. The shootings occurred around 11 a.m. The victims had not yet been publicly identified.

Police think the shootings occurred inside the home, Boggess said.

Officers called to the home found two people dead and two others critically wounded, Boggess said. One of the wounded died later at a hospital, he said.

Detectives were searching the home for clues as to what caused the shootings, he said.

"We've got all of our resources devoted to this," Boggess said. "We're trying to get to the bottom of it."

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