A State Police spokesperson said investigators had detained an individual “during the initial stages of the investigation, but that person is no longer being detained.”

A Vermont town official, his wife and her son were found shot to death in their home over the weekend, state police said. Police identified them Tuesday as Brian Crossman, 46, a selectboard member in Pawlet;

A Vermont local official was found shot to death along with his new wife and stepson in their home over the weekend, state police have said.Brian Crossman, his wife Erica and her 13-year-old son, Colin Taft,

Brian Crossman was recently elected to the select board of Pawlet, Vermont, before his body was found in his home along with his wife and stepson.

A Vermont town official and his new wife and stepson have been found shot dead in their rural farmhouse near the New York border — with a relative in blood-covered clothes calling cops to the triple-murder scene,