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Updated: 4:06 PM EDT May 15, 2021
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. Police are investigating a murder-suicide in Swatara Township, Dauphin County that happened Friday.
Police said shortly before midnight, they were dispatched to a house in the 600 block of Mohn Street for a domestic incident.
Authorities did not receive an answer at the door and forced entry into the home. Police found a male and female dead with gunshot wounds.
Police say the investigation is being conducted by Swatara Police detectives, the Dauphin County District Attorney s Office and the Dauphin County Coroner s Office.
Identities of those involved are being withheld pending notification to the families, according to officials.
Man, woman dead in Dauphin County murder-suicide, police say
Updated May 15, 2021;
Posted May 15, 2021
Neighbors said the stretch of Mohn Street where the murder-suicide took place, at the edge of Steelton and Swatara Township, is relatively quiet. Mostly, people keep to themselves.
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A man and woman died just before midnight Friday in what Swatara Township police are calling a murder-suicide.
Township police said they were called to the 600 block of Mohn Street at about 11:59 p.m. because of a domestic disturbance. No one answered when they knocked on the door, police said.
When police stepped inside the home, they said they found a man and woman dead with gunshot wounds. Their identities have not yet been released.
Police say a man and a woman died in a murder-suicide in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.Officers were dispatched just before midnight Friday to a reported domestic incident at a home in the 600 block of Mohn Street.No one answered the door, but officers could hear a baby crying and forced their way inside the home.Police said they found Elizabeth Wise, 36, dead on the couch from gunshot wounds.Brian Womelsdorf, 42, was on the floor with a gunshot wound to his head, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.Police said the two had been arguing, which ended with Womelsdorf shooting Wise multiple times and then shooting himself.Three minor children were in the home at the time of the shooting, according to police. The children were not hurt and are now with family members.
Updated: 4:40 PM EDT April 23, 2021
HERSHEY, Pa. The driver involved in a March 3 crash that killed a pedestrian in Derry Township will be charged with careless driving resulting in an unintentional death, but will avoid the more serious charge of homicide by vehicle, Derry Township Police said Friday.
Michelle Walls, of Hershey, was driving a GMC Yukon SUV that struck and killed 65-year-old Karl Piasecki as he crossed West Chocolate Avenue at about 7:30 a.m. on March 3, police say.
An investigation determined Piasecki was lawfully within the crosswalk when he was struck by Walls, who did not see him as she turned left from Ridge Road.