Crime & Safety

Man Kills Wife, Self at LVH Hospice, DA Says

Police are investigating a murder-suicide that occurred about 1 p.m. in the hospice area of Lehigh Valley Hospital, at 17th and Chew streets, Allentown.

A man killed his elderly wife, then himself in a hospice room at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Allentown around 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to multiple published reports.

His wife was a patient at the hospice, the reports said.

District Attorney James Martin held a brief news conference outside the hospital about 2 p.m., confirming the apparent murder-suicide, lehighvalleylive.com reported.

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Hospital staff had gone to the wife's room after hearing the gunshots, but Martin said there were no eyewitnesses, according to a report in The Morning Call

No names have yet been released.

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The murder-suicide recalls other Lehigh Valley cases:

  • In 2012, prominent GOP activist , in their Fogelsville home.
  • In another case in 2011, a Lower Macungie man was charged in the attempted "mercy killing" of his wife.


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