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Person of interest in ND slayings ID'd
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   NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) _ A man who killed himself with a knife in front of law enforcement officers and has been called a ``person of interest'' in the slayings of a New Town woman and three of her grandchildren has been identified.
   Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson identified the man as 21-year-old Kalcie Eagle of New Town. Halvorson says Eagle killed himself in front of a deputy and a highway patrolman on Sunday night in Parshall.
   Halvorson says authorities are still trying to determine what role _ if any_ Eagle played in the shooting deaths Sunday of 64-year-old Martha Johnson and three of her grandchildren.
   FBI spokesman Kyle Loven declined comment, citing the ongoing investigation.