YORK CO., Va. — An elderly husband and wife are dead after what the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office is calling a murder-suicide.
According to the sheriff's office, the couple was found dead in a home on Kitty Drive around 9 a.m. Monday. The sheriff’s office said the husband, in his eighties, shot his wife, who was in her seventies, and then shot himself.
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Tuesday afternoon, the street was quiet.
One person who lives on the street said the couple were good neighbors.
He never expected a murder suicide. He said he knows what happened, but didn’t want to share details.
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Tuesday, the sheriff’s office did not say where, on the street the victims lived, but neighbors pointed the home out to News 3.
Another person who lives on the street but who didn't wanjt to go on camera said the victims were a “lovely couple.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office had not released a motive but did say this is not believed to be a so-called mercy killing.
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There were never any threats to the community, according to the sheriff's office. As of Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff's office had not identified the victims
