Twin 16-Year-Old Girls Killed In Apparent Domestic Shooting Attended Oswego High School

By Amie Rowland, Patch

Authorities on Sunday released 911 calls made from inside the St. Charles condo where a man and his two teenage daughters were found shot dead on Friday.

The calls paint a gruesome picture that points to Randall R. Coffland, 48, as the gunman who killed his two daughters, twin sisters Brittany and Tiffany Coffland, both 16 years old, before he shot himself. He also shot his wife, Anjum Coffland, 46, in the legs.

“I just shot my two kids, and I shot my wife and now I’m going to shoot myself,” a man authorities identified as Randall Coffland said in one of the 911 calls placed Friday evening from inside Coffland’s condo at 450 S. 1st St. At the start of the call, Coffland is heard saying, "I want you to live and suffer like I did."

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The second 911 call released Sunday came moments later from a panicked Anjum Coffland, who told dispatchers her husband shot her kids and shot her. "Oh my God, my husband shot my kids, he shot me," the mother said. She can be heard yelling the teenagers' names and screaming, "My girls are dead!"

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“Our preliminary investigation has led us to believe this was an isolated domestic event,” Kintz said.

Authorities arrived on scene at 5:12 p.m. where they found Randall and one of his teenage daughters dead on the couch and the other dead in a bedroom, St. Charles Deputy Chief David Kintz said during a press conference on Sunday. Randall, Brittany and Tiffany all suffered a single gunshot wound to the head. An autopsy scheduled for Monday will reveal more and should point to an official cause of death, Kintz said.

“There was no indication of a struggle (between Randall and his teenage daughters),” said Kintz. Police said the girls, who previously attended Oswego High School, would have celebrated their 17th birthday on Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Evidence technicians recovered two 9mm handguns from the scene of the fatal shooting. One of the guns was found near Randall Coffland and the other was found in a closet. A single casing was also found near each of the victims, Kintz said Sunday. Authorities are still investigating who the guns belonged to but did say Randall Coffland had a valid FOID card.

St. Charles investigators, who have been working around the clock since Friday evening, are continuing to investigate what lead to the shooting.

“...this was a tragic and horrific event,” Kintz said. “Three lives were lost and another was injured. First responders also had to deal with the aftermath of this event and our entire community mourns the loss of the victims.”

Randall Coffland and Anjum Coffland were living at separate addresses at the time of the shooting. Randall was living with the couple’s daughters and Anjum was living elsewhere, Kintz said.

“We don’t know why the mother was there (prior to the shooting),” Kintz said. “Obviously, that’s something we want to figure out.”

Investigators have spoken briefly with Anjum Coffland who is recovering at Delnor Hospital in Geneva. Kintz would not elaborate on what she told investigators. She is in stable condition.

Just over a month before the tragic shooting, officers responded to a report of "domestic trouble" involving the couple in the 100 block of South Fifth Avenue.” The report, taken on Feb. 9, indicates that nothing physical happened" during the previous incident, police said.

Randall Coffland has no history of violence and no history of mental illness, Kintz said.

A memorial has been set up outside the luxury condominium complex located near downtown St. Charles. Three crosses with the names “Randall,” “Brittany” and “Tiffany” can be found on a bench surrounded by flowers, balloons, lit candles, photos and messages and bible passages. Passerbys on Sunday stopped outside the memorial.

After learning of the teen girls' deaths, grief-stricken teens held a vigil outside the condominium complex late Friday night, the Daily Herald reports.

The twin sisters attended St. Charles East High School where Brittany was a cheerleader, the Daily Herald reports. Tiffany worked at a pet store and was remembered by friends for her passion for animals.

Anjum Coffland works as a claim adjuster for MetLife in Aurora and before that was a deputy recorder in Kendall County from September 2013 to September 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile. Randy Coffland was a Network Manager, working in the IT department for Much Shelist, P.C. in Chicago since January 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile.

St. Charles Mayor Ray Rogina in a statement on Saturday called the deaths "a horrific personal tragedy " for the city of St. Charles. The last time there was a murder in St. Charles was in 2008 when Arthur Manning, a carnival worker, was stabbed to death at a home on West Main Street, Kintz said.

"Being the close-knit community we are, an incident of this nature has impact beyond the immediate family--we think about and pray for the extended family which includes relatives, high school students and other friends," Rogina said. "We also pray for the greater community, all of us, that we will stand tall and provide calm and peace at such a tragic moment."

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