Peters Township couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
A Peters Township police cruiser blocks Marlboro Drive where state police are leading the investigation into two bodies that were found inside one of the homes Sept. 23.
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State police Lt. Dale Brown discusses a September murder-suicide in Peters Township.
117 Marlboro Drive in Peters Township
McMURRAY – Two siblings awoke Sunday morning in their Peters Township home to find their parents dead of what state police believed to be a murder-suicide.
State police Lt. Dale Brown identified the dead couple as Kelly Ann Bryan, 44, and her husband, Craig Alan Bryan, 48, following a more than 10-hour investigation at the couple’s home at 117 Marlboro Drive.
Brown said the couple died in what appeared to have been a domestic situation.
Craig Bryan was pronounced dead at 7:55 a.m., Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said. Bryan’s wife was pronounced dead two minutes later.
The cause of and manner of the deaths were pending autopsies, Warco said.
Brown declined to disclose whether a gun was involved or who was killed first.
He said was not releasing the “details as to how it happened” while the case remained under investigation.
Investigators were called about 6:30 a.m. for a report of “suspicious deaths” in the home on a dead-end street, he said. Peters Township police responded to the house, but later handed the investigation over to state police.
Brown said the Bryans lived in a quiet neighborhood.
“It’s kind of shocking,” he said.
The couple had a 17-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, who were being cared for Sunday by relatives, Brown said.
He said Peters police responded to the couple’s home in 2011 for a domestic problem, and again several months ago to take a theft report.
Craig Bryan was briefly in Washington County jail in September 2011 on $10,000 bond, charged by Peters police with simple assault. The charge was later dismissed by then-District Justice James Ellis.
Regional editor Mike Jones contributed to this report.