Bodies of Tej Pratap Singh, 43, and his wife, Sonal Parihar, 42, were found alongside their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter on Wednesday

Cops conducting a welfare check at the request of a relative, found the bodies inside the family’s home in Plainsboro, NJ, on Wednesday afternoon

Police investigating the incident as a homicide, have hinted that the family’s deaths may have been a murder-suicide

Tej Pratap Singh with his wife Sonal Parihar and their two young children celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi in a photo posted 18 months before the tragedy

A New Jersey family of four were found dead inside their home on Wednesday, in what police believe to be a possible case of murder-suicide.
police said. as a stunned neighbor recalled the moment she realized the “sweet” couple’s daughter failed to show up for the school bus ahead of the tragic discovery.
The bodies of Tej Pratap Singh, 43, and his wife, Sonal Parihar, 42, were found alongside their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter in their Plainsboro home Wednesday afternoon.
Pratap Singh was an information technology professional employed by a New York-based company, according to his LinkedIn profile. He also served as treasurer of the local elementary school’s PTA.

Tej Pratap Singh [left] who according to relatives was active on his children’s schools’ PTAs, is seen with other Plainsboro parents at a PTA meeting for one of his children’s elementary schools

Police are investigating the incident as a homicide, and have hinted that the family’s deaths may have been a murder-suicide, CBS News reports.
About 18 months before their deaths, Singh shared a Facebook photo of the family grinning and covered in bright colors in celebration of the Hindu festival of Holi.
A few months later, the father of two was pictured alongside other Plainsboro parents at a PTA meeting for one of his children’s elementary schools.
“They were such a sweet family,” a woman who lived near their Titus Lane home told NJ.com.
The neighbor’s daughter met Singh and Parihar’s daughter at the school bus stop every morning until Wednesday, when the child failed to appear.
“It was weird for me to not see her in the morning,” she said.

Cops conducting a welfare check at the request of a relative, found the bodies inside the family’s home in Plainsboro, NJ, on Wednesday afternoon

The neighbor texted Parihar later in the morning, but never heard back, she said.
The family’s bodies were found just a few hours later, shortly after a relative called for a welfare check around 4:40 p.m., the Plainsboro Police Department said.