ANOTHER DIRTY COP KILLED: Former police officer accused of killing 15-year-old's family was pretending to be teen online The girl's mother, grandmother and grandfather were killed in her home.

CATFISHING:  Former police officer accused of killing 15-year-old's family was pretending to be teen online

The girl's mother, grandmother and grandfather were killed in her home.  https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-allegedly-catfishes-teen-girl-online-kills-family/story?id=94090351 

Austin Lee Edwards, the suspect in a triple homicide in Southern California who died in a shootout with police on Nov. 25, 2022, in a photo provided by the Riverside Police Department.

Riverside Police Department via AP

After Edwards developed a relationship with the girl online, police said they believe he drove from Virginia to California, parked in a neighbor's driveway, went to the girl's home and killed her family. Edwards then allegedly took the teen and drove away, according to police. The girl has since been rescued.

The murders were discovered on Friday after authorities received a report of a girl "who appeared distressed" while getting into a car with a man, Riverside police said.

As officers responded to that report, they received calls of a fire at a nearby house.