{"id":129774,"date":"2026-03-04T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:02:09","slug":"3-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-spanning-from-pennsylvania-to-illinois-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129774\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead in apparent murder-suicide spanning from Pennsylvania to Illinois, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women are dead in Pennsylvania and a man is dead in Illinois after an apparent murder-suicide, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the Pennsylvania State Police, the investigation began in Hillside, Illinois, when police there were dispatched after a man reported two women dead in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. Police said that when officers got to Hillside, they found that the man had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>After identifying him, troopers said Hillside officers contacted Jackson Township police to request a welfare check at the man&#8217;s home on Dior Drive in Zelienople.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/snapshot-2026-03-04t170139-926.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"snapshot-2026-03-04t170139-926.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Map shows distance from Hillside, Illinois, to Zelienople, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: KDKA)<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers forced entry into the home and found two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds. It&#8217;s believed the two women are family members of the man who died by suicide in Illinois, investigators said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police said they&#8217;ve assumed control of the case and are &#8220;actively investigating&#8221; what happened surrounding the three deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Police didn&#8217;t release any names, saying the process of formal identification and notification of next of kin hasn&#8217;t been completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said there&#8217;s no ongoing threat to the public, and law enforcement isn&#8217;t searching for anyone else in connection with the shootings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police didn&#8217;t release any other details on Wednesday but said more information will be made public when it&#8217;s available. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women are dead in Pennsylvania and a man is dead in Illinois after an apparent murder-suicide, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24753,39645,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-129774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-illinois","tag-murder-suicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}