LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP/WVLT) -- School officials have identified two teenagers shot and killed in a home near Little Falls.
They say the victims were cousins, 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nicholas Brady.
64-year-old Byron David Smith, of Little Falls, is being held for second-degree murder and is likely to be charged Monday.
Kifer was a senior at Little Falls High School.
Brady was a student at Pillager High School.
The Star Tribune identified him after interviewing his principal.
Morrison County deputies went to Smith's house Friday on a suspicious activity call.
They say he confessed to shooting the teenagers a day earlier after they broke into his house.
Sheriff Michel Wetzel says investigators believe he exceeded self-defense.
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