Coroner: Elderly Couple Dead In Murder-Suicide Weren't Ill
HERMITAGE, Pa. (AP) - A deputy coroner says an elderly couple that died in a Mercer County 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.
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