Police Decline To Identify Shooter

"WORCESTER, MA — Police today identified the victims of an apparent murder/suicide on Lamar Avenue as Donna Zollo Pisarczyk, 47, and Israel Gonzalez, 42.

"Mr. Gonzalez was a Worcester State University police officer.

"The bodies of the victims—a boyfriend and girlfriend, according to police—were discovered by police officers on a well-being check shortly before midnight Friday. Police said the couple died from apparent gunshot wounds.

"Police, while terming the deaths an apparent murder/suicide, did not identify which of the two fired the gun.

"Police were called to the house at 16 Lamar Ave. about 11:30 p.m. Friday. A woman had called police worried because she hadn't heard from her friend. Police headed to the home to check.

"Officers found a side door unlocked and, once inside, they found the dead man and woman."

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