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CBS News
02-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Ohio man kills wife before graduation party in murder-suicide, authorities say
A husband fatally shot his wife before killing himself ahead of a graduation party they were set to host in Ohio, officials said. In a post on Facebook, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office said law enforcement was called to a home in Dover Township on Sunday around 1:30 p.m. for reports of a shooting. The sheriff's office said a 911 caller said she was at the home preparing for a graduation party when the shots were fired. The party was for a child who lived at the home but was not in the house when the shooting happened because the party was set to happen hundreds of yards away from the home on the couple's property, authorities said. The caller reportedly told 911 that a man in the home shot his wife and then shot himself. When law enforcement arrived, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office said they found a man dead on his bed and a woman fatally injured on the floor near the bed. The woman was taken to a hospital in Cleveland, where she died. CBS affiliate WTRF identified the victims as 53-year-old April Houston and 64-year-old Robert Houston. They were husband and wife and lived at the home, the TV station reported. The Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office said preliminary information suggests the deaths were a murder-suicide, but a motive was not immediately known. No other details were released. Dover Township is about 85 miles north of Cleveland and about 100 miles west of Pittsburgh.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
2 dead in suspected murder-suicide before Dover Township graduation party
[Watch in the player above: What happens when you call 911?] DOVER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) — A 54-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman are dead after what authorities believe was a murder-suicide at a township home, before a graduation party was set to begin on the property. Tuscarawas County sheriff's deputies were called just after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday to the home in the 2000 block of Gordon Road Northwest, Dover Township, according to a Facebook post from Sheriff Orvis Campbell. 2 dead in 'possible' murder-suicide in Lorain The caller told dispatchers she was preparing for a graduation party for another person living at the home, when she heard gunshots in the home. She said the man, who lives at the home, shot his wife then shot himself. The graduation party was set to begin elsewhere on the property, and the party's honoree was not home at the time of the shooting, the caller said. Deputies found the man dead lying on his bed and the woman on the floor near the bed. Dover firefighters started life-saving measures on the woman. She was eventually transported to a Canton hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. 'While there is still evidence to process and information to gather, preliminary indication suggests that murder-suicide is the most likely cause due to evidence and witness statements at the scene,' reads the post. Intoxicated man allegedly threatens family member with firearm: police The identities of the two people killed will not released until all of their family members have been notified, according to the post. The Tuscarawas County and Stark County coroner's offices are working together to determine the cause and manner of the two deaths, since the man died in Tuscarawas County and the woman died in Stark County, according to the post. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
