Man's chilling admission after attending police station with body in car

A man who went to a police station with a dead body in his car has confessed to killing four family members with three found in his apartment, according to police.

Shankar Hangud, 53, was arrested on Monday after he turned himself in to Mount Shasta police in California and told investigators he had killed the man in his car, Roseville Police Captain Josh Simon said.

Police said he also confessed to killing three other people at his apartment in Roseville, about 420 kilometres south of Mount Shasta.

Hangud is facing four murder charges, Captain Simon said. He’s currently in custody.

The officer added police found the bodies of an adult and two juveniles on Monday at Hangud’s Roseville apartment after Mount Shasta police told them of the 53-year-old’s statement.

He would not say if the juveniles were children or teens.

They are yet to be identified and police will conduct an autopsy to determine how they died.

Hangud left his home in Roseville with the relative found in his car last week, and they traveled to several places in Northern California and ended up in Mount Shasta, Captain Simon said.

He added it appeared the victims were killed over a few days, though detectives were still trying to piece together when they died.

“We’re still working to put that timeline together,” he said.

“We can confirm the victim he had in his vehicle in Mount Shasta was an adult male of East Indian descent.”

“There’s a lot of stones that have been unturned that these detectives still need to look into before making a real determination about what the motivation was, what led the suspect to do the things that he did,” Captain Simon said.

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