Man Charged with Murder After 3 Killed Inside Farmington Home
A Farmington man has been charged with three counts of 2nd-degree murder, accused of shooting his brother and father in the head, then bludgeoning his mother to death inside a home earlier this week.
Blake Thomas Maloney, 26, was arrested at the scene of the triple homicide on the 400 block of 183rd St. W. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, and was booked into the Dakota County Jail, with formal charges filed Friday.
Wednesday at about 9:30 p.m., officers arrived after a caller reported their ex-girlfriend—later identified as Tracy Maloney, 53—had gone to her ex-husband’s home earlier that evening to visit her sons. The caller couldn’t contact Tracy for several hours and wanted police to check the home.
When officers got there, they found a partially open front door and sounds from inside the home. Blake Maloney answered the door, said that his mother was inside and invited officers in, a criminal complaint said. Maloney then raised his hands above his head and said “I did something. I murdered them or something,” the complaint alleges.
Officers put Maloney in handcuffs and he told them his mother was “up there,” on the upper level of the home and that he had killed her with a hammer. “I didn’t want to use the AR (rifle)… I killed Scott, they’re not my family,” Maloney told officers, the documents said.
Officers checked the home and found Tracy Maloney on the kitchen floor with a yoga mat covering her head, numerous contusions to her face and a large amount of blood on the floor. She did not have a pulse.
Jack John Maloney, 55, had a gunshot wound to the head and was found dead in the basement, covered with blankets on a bed. On the second floor, officers found bullet holes on several doors and the body of Scott Connor Maloney, 23, with an apparent gunshot wound to his head. Jack and Scott are the father and brother of the suspect, according to the complaint.
When Blake Maloney was taken to the Farmington Police Department and interviewed, he reportedly told officers that he didn’t believe “Jack, Tracy and Scott” were his family, that he had killed his brother and father by shooting them both in the head with an AR-15, several days before Tracy arrived at the home on Wednesday.
Maloney remains in custody.