HERMITAGE, Pa. (AP) - A deputy coroner says an elderly western Pennsylvania couple that died in a western Pennsylvania murder-suicide had no “out of the ordinary” illnesses and didn’t leave a note explaining the deaths.
Mercer County Deputy Coroner John Libonati says 89-year-old George Gresko was pronounced dead at the couple’s home in Hermitage on Sunday morning. Eighty-five-year-old Marie Gresko, his wife, died a short time later at a nearby hospital of a single gunshot wound.
Hermitage police Chief Brian Blair issued a short statement saying only, “We investigated a suicide this morning at the residence of an elderly couple. No further comment.
The coroner determined George Gresko’s wound was self-inflicted and that he shot his wife.
Hermitage is about 65 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, near the Ohio border.
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