Two adults killed in Northfield Township, two children abducted then rescued

According to police, they were both removed from a house on Northfield Township’s Nollar Bend Drive that was used as a foster home for one of the kids.

(FOX 2):Two adults were killed and two children were abducted in this case of unimaginable violence.

At the time of the altercation, the kids were being fostered inside a house in Northfield Township on Nollar Bend Drive in Washtenaw County. Police said that they had freed one of the two small children who had been kidnapped on Rowley Court on New Year’s.

A neighbor who witnessed the rescue stated, “I looked out, and they were like three or four police cars, and I saw somebody like, being taken away in handcuffs.”

According to sources, the other youngster was saved on Lexington Parkway close to Rambling Road, approximately two minutes distant.

They were unrelated and are 4 and 7 years old.

Authorities claim that both of them were removed from a house where one of the kids was placed in foster care.

Around 8:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day, the abductors allegedly shot and killed two adults in the house and gravely wounded a third, according to police, who described it as a violent altercation.

“Just odd. Neighbor Lee Maulbetsch remarked, “You know, we don’t have those kinds of things happen here.”

Police said they discovered two Northfield Township residents, 48-year-old Jennifer Lyn Bernhard and 74-year-old Stevie Ray Smith, dead when they arrived at the residence.

Jeffrey Bernhard, 52, her husband, was seriously injured and in stable condition at the hospital, according to investigators.

FOX 2 has discovered that he works for the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System as an assistant director.

FOX 2 is trying to verify the details, but investigative sources claim the shooting is connected to a custody battle.

The kids are safe and healthy, according to the police.

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