Medical Examiner: Woman Found Shot Next To Husband In McCandless Died By Suicide
By: KDKA-TV New Staff
MCCANDLESS, Pa. (KDKA) - A woman found shot behind a dumpster next to her husband at an apartment complex in McCandless died by suicide, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner said.
Officers arrived at The Club At North Hills Apartment Homes on Duncan Avenue shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday to find 23-year-old Liam Donavon already dead from at least one gunshot wound. Molly Beardsley, 25, was also found shot in the face, police said.
She was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died just before 10 a.m., police said.
The medical examiner ruled the cause of Beardsley's death as suicide on Thursday. The cause of Donavon's death hasn't been released.
Investigators determined the two victims were married and didn't live at the apartment complex, Allegheny County police said.
No one else was involved in the shooting, and police stress that there's no danger to the public.
There's been no word on what led up to the young couple's death.