Man Shoots Wife, Dog Before Killing Himself

"CENTER TWP, PA — The deaths Thursday of a Center Township couple were a murder-suicide, Center police Chief Barry Kramer said Saturday.

"Kramer said police were called to 744 Bunker Hill Road around 12:40 p.m. Thursday, after a co-worker of Lucy Manning went to check on her because she hadn’t shown up for work.

"Looking through a window, the co-worker saw a foot, Kramer said, and called police. When police entered the home, Kramer said, they found Manning dead in her living room of a rifle slug wound to the head, along with her pit bull.

"Police then went into a bedroom in the house, and found Manning’s husband, William M. Moore, also dead of a rifle slug wound to the head.

"Kramer said family members said that the couple, in their mid-30s, apparently had been having problems recently, Kramer said.

"He said Moore had left a note in which he apologized for the killings.

"Kramer said there was no sign of a struggle in the couple’s home, which they had been renting, and it appeared that Manning had been killed first.

"Kramer said the couple did not have family in the area."

Source: Beaver County Times...