{"id":34147,"date":"2025-11-02T02:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:37:12","slug":"elderly-couple-with-gunshot-wounds-believed-to-have-died-in-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34147\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple with gunshot wounds believed to have died in murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mira-Mesa-Homicide.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mira-Mesa-Homicide.jpg\" alt=\"A police car is seen parked behind crime scene tape.\" class=\"wp-image-184532\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Police Department cruiser at a crime scene. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the deaths of an elderly couple found shot to death in their Del Mar Heights home as a murder-suicide, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of Johann and Kaethe Oesterreicher, both 83, were found shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday in the home in the 12000 block of Caminito Del Pasaje, according to Lt. Chris Tivanian of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.  A gun was nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arriving on scene, officers located an adult male and female inside, both with fatal gunshot wounds,\u201d Tivinian said. \u201cThe couple was pronounced deceased at the scene by SDPD officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SDPD homicide unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the case was encouraged to call the detectives at 619-531-2293.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Police Department cruiser at a crime scene. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) Police are investigating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8528,8509,74,76,75,9862],"class_list":{"0":"post-34147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-fatal-shooting","9":"tag-murder-suicide","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-san-diego-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}