ZELIENOPLE, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police have identified the shooter and both victims in a Butler County murder-suicide that spanned to Illinois.
A.C. Byrd Jr., 57, of Zelienople, shot and killed two of his relatives in a Jackson Township home before fatally shooting himself, PSP said on Friday.
The victims are identified as Amy Byrd, 53, and Lanaya Lewis, 19, both of Zelienople.
On Wednesday, a man reported to the Hillside Police Department in Illinois that two people were dead at a home in Zelienople, according to PSP.
When the Hillside police responded to speak with that man, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
After locating an ID, Hillside officers contacted the Jackson Township Police Department, requesting a welfare check at the man’s listed home address on Dior Drive in Zelienople, PSP says.
At that address, PSP says Jackson Township officers found the two victims shot to death.
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