Authorities in Arkansas are investigating the shooting deaths of a woman and her two children in her home as a divorce from her husband was being finalized.

The Sebastian County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that it conducted a welfare check around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at a home in the 1100 block of 1st Avenue in Bonanza, a tiny town which sits along the state's border with Oklahoma. Cops arrived at the residence but no one answered when they knocked on the door.

Two people who worked at the home let them inside where they found 40-year-old Charity Beallis along with her two children .

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"It was apparent that the three had gunshot wounds,"

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