Mike Donoghue, Vermont News First

All three victims killed in a triple homicide at a Pawlet home died from gunshot wounds — and the name of the third victim was released Tuesday night by Vermont State Police.

The state police are now confirming the victims as Brian Crossman Sr., 46; his wife, Erica (Pawlusiak) Crossman, 41; and Erica’s son and Brian’s stepson, Colin Taft, 13, of Pawlet.

The medical examiner determined Brian Crossman’s died from gunshot wounds to the head and torso, Erica Crossman died from a gunshot wound to the head, and Colin Taft died from multiple gunshot wounds.

All three deaths were ruled homicides by the medical examiner, state police said shortly before 9 p.m.. The information about the autopsy results was the first news release issued by state police in more than 48 hours. State police have been extra secretive about this crime.

Meanwhile Vermont State Police continued on Tuesday to sort through the evidence collected at the bloody scene. Investigators also are conducting and reviewing interviews in the rare triple homicide that was reported on Vermont 133 in Pawlet about 3:45 a.m. Sunday.

Nobody has been jailed and no known charges had been filed as of Wednesday morning.

The Manchester Journal had earlier identified two of the victims as Brian Crossman Sr. and his new wife, Erica. The name of the child was unconfirmed until Tuesday night.

The public identification by the daily newspaper online edition on Monday afternoon came a few hours after Vermont News First confirmed the triple shooting had happened at the home of Brian Crossman, a new Pawlet Selectboard member.

State police had said the names of the shooting victims would be withheld pending competition of the three autopsies. State police did not say what took the medical examiner at least two days to complete the three autopsies.

While the names of the dead were widely circulated through the area and at Green Mountain Power where the Crossmans both worked, the State Police were still clinging to a newer department protocol in recent years to wait until after an autopsy is completed to release a name.

Investigators continue to deal with a person of interest – believed to be another family member – since early on Sunday. The person of interest, who was one of the people to report the triple shooting through E-911, had considerable blood on him when police responded to the scene, officials said.

His clothes have been seized for analysis as part of the criminal investigation, officials said.

Police say investigators need to develop a solid timeline that shows the whereabouts of each of the victims during the weekend and especially in the hours leading up to the reported killings. Those timelines would be used to try to tie in any suspect.