Two Dead In Suspected Murder/Suicide

"HILLSIDE, NJ — Investigators believe a Hillside man killed his wife and then killed himself in their second-floor apartment in what Hillside police and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office are calling a suspected murder-suicide.

"Family members said that Richard Lewis’ 15-year-old daughter awoke this morning to find her mother unresponsive and called her grandmother, who called police.

"When officers arrived at the house in the 200 block of Hillside Avenue at 10 a.m. today, they found 35-year-old Lewis’ body lying on a bed, according to a press release from Hillside police. Officers then discovered 45-year-old Richard Lewis’ body sprawled in the bathtub.

"`The husband killed the wife,` said John Holl, a spokesman for Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow.

"The daughter and the Lewises’ 11-year-son were not harmed, police said.

"Tonight, two police cruisers and a pair of crime-scene sport utility vehicles stood parked in front of the two-story home with tan aluminum siding.

"Police would not comment on when or how the Lewises died."

From NJ.com...