GRETNA, Va. (AP) - Police in Virginia are trying to determine the motive of a murder-suicide that left two people dead in a car and an infant boy alone and unharmed.
The News & Advance reports that murder-suicide occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Gretna. The town is in Pittsylvania County and sits between Lynchburg and Danville.
The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said the people who died have been identified as Patricia Harris Towler, 43, and Dane Clark Towler, 50, both of Tightsqueeze.
She died from a single gunshot, and he died from a self-inflicted gunshot, the sheriff department concluded.
Sheriff’s deputies found an infant boy in the car. He was not harmed. The boy was released to a family member.
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