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2 adults dead, 2 children wounded in shooting outside day care center

Day Care Center Shooting

L.E. Baskow

North Las Vegas Police investigate a shooting outside a day care center where two adults were killed and two children wounded on Thursday, May 5, 2016.

Updated Thursday, May 5, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.

Kids Campus Double Murder

North Las Vegas Police and the Clark County Coroner's office continue to work the scene of a double murder outside of the Kids Campus Learning Center at 3901 North Martin L. King Boulevard on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Launch slideshow »

A domestic-related shooting in front of a North Las Vegas day care center left a man and woman dead Thursday and their two young children hospitalized with gunshot wounds, authorities said.

North Las Vegas Police said they received a call about 6 a.m. of shots fired in the 3900 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard. Officers found a man and woman dead with apparent gunshot wounds, police said.

Their children — a 4-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl — also suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to University Medical Center in stable condition with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.

It was not clear whether the mother or father fired the shots or whether the 3-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy were intended targets, North Las Vegas police spokeswoman Ann Cavaricci said.

Police said they believe the incident was domestic related, and they were not looking for any other suspects.

Authorities have not identified the family.

Employees were at the Kids Campus Learning Center as it opened, but no other children were around when the shooting happened around 6:10 a.m. in the front parking lot, police said. No one else was hurt at the preschool and day care.

The workers initially cared for the children and reported the shooting to police, Cavaricci said.

"They opened the doors and brought the children inside, called 911," she said. "They did everything they could to make sure those kids were safe."

The center declined to comment.

Cavaricci said the children attend daycare at the center. A child protective services agency is working to find relatives to help care for them.

Only a few employees were at work at the time of the shooting, and no other children were at the daycare at the time, Cavaricci said.

Police said they don't believe there was an exchange of gunfire because only one weapon was recovered at the scene.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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