WALLKILL, N.Y. (AP) - State police say a husband and wife are dead from an apparent murder-suicide at their upstate New York home.
Troopers say police in the Orange County town of Wallkill received a call around 9 p.m. Tuesday requesting that they check on the welfare of the occupants of a home on Anthony Street.
Officers saw two bodies inside the home and called state police investigators. Officials say their preliminary investigation determined that 49-year-old Michael Leroy shot his wife 46-year-old wife D’Anne Leroy with a rifle during a domestic dispute, then shot himself with the same weapon.
State police say their investigation is continuing.
Wallkill is outside Middletown, 60 miles northwest of New York City.
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