Prominent realtor, ex-husband and their daughters, ages 11 and 8, found dead in affluent Miami suburb

A salient South Florida existent property cause was recovered dormant alongside her ex-husband and their 2 young daughters successful what constabulary called a murder-suicide.

At astir 7:32 p.m. Tuesday, Doral Police Department officers responded to the Doral Isles vicinity for a payment cheque successful the affluent Miami suburb.

Melanie Hyer, 46, Ryan Whiten, 42, and their daughters Savannah, 11, and Sienna, 8, were each recovered with stab wounds, the Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office said.

The 4 were each pronounced dormant connected scene. Police did not specify who stabbed whom.

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Melanie Hyer, 46, Ryan Whiten, 42, and their daughters Savannah, 11, and Sienna, 8, were each pronounced dormant connected scene, constabulary said. (Melanie Hyer/Facebook)

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau detectives responded to the country and took implicit the investigation.

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Hyer was a salient realtor successful the country and Whiten was a existent property task manager, according to their societal media profiles.

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NBC Miami reported that the erstwhile mates co-parented their 2 children and were successful consequent marriages that had since ended.

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"As a mother, and arsenic idiosyncratic who personally knew and admired the loving and dedicated parent astatine the halfway of this tragedy, this nonaccomplishment feels particularly adjacent to home," Doral Mayor Christi Fraga said successful a connection connected Instagram. "My bosom aches for their loved ones, classmates, teachers, friends, neighbors, and everyone grieving during this incredibly achy time. Please articulation maine successful praying for this family, for each those affected, and for the healing of our community."

MDSO homicide detectives person classified the lawsuit a murder-suicide, though authorities person not publically identified which idiosyncratic they judge was responsible. (Peter Whiten/Facebook)

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WSVN spoke to Whiten's ex-wife, who told the outlet that his narration with Hyer was toxic and that they had been successful a quality implicit their 2 daughters.

"I’m successful shock," said the ex-wife, who did not privation to beryllium identified, successful Spanish during a telephone interrogation with the section outlet. "He was ever truthful saccharine with his girls and loved them deeply. I don’t cognize what happened."

Deputies said that Doral constabulary officers were called to a Doral Isles location successful the country of Northwest 111 Court and Northwest 72nd Terrace conscionable aft 7:30 p.m. to execute a payment check. (Peter Whiten/Facebook)

The outlet besides reported a connection from the girls' school, Downtown Doral Charter Elementary.

"Our assemblage is mourning the nonaccomplishment of 2 of our beloved students," a spokesperson wrote. "Our heartfelt sympathies are with their families, friends, module and unit astatine our schools. These students volition beryllium profoundly missed."