Authorities Investigating Double Murder on Arch Street
Police reportedly suspected a murder-suicide initially, but evidence suggests the victims were killed by an unidentified suspect or suspects.
According to The Times Herald, little information has been released in the case of the two victims found dead of gunshot wounds in a rental unit on the 1200 block of Arch Street on Fathers' Day.
Authorities told the Herald that police responded to a call of an unresponsive subject on the scene shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 17, and discovered the man and woman, both described as black and in their mid twenties to early thirties, lying on the floor on their backs in a room on the second floor of a rooming house.
“It doesn’t appear to be a murder-suicide,” Norristown Police Chief Russell Bono told the Herald. “We initially thought it was, but that does not appear to be the case. We are treating this as a double-murder. You never know for sure, but right now, it doesn’t look like it. Instead, we are looking at our first murder since, I think, last August. That’s a pretty significant stretch of time, but I was really hoping to get through the year without one.”
No word on a time of death for the two victims or if they were residents of the room they were found in.
Norristown Patch will provide more information as it becomes available.
shirley ferguson
12:30 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Norristown is becoming a little Philadelphia, with the crime, homeless, and little regards to the law, so sad, I moved here for a reprive from these activities in Philadelphia!!!
Bobby Joe Hobbs
5:57 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The problem some of those reasons is why others moved here, but brought their mess with them.
Ashlei Stewart
10:12 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
just pray to stay out of the way of the the darkness and lord please keep these babies SAFE.To: all MOTHERS & REAL FATHERS it's now time to step ur game up
no namen
6:50 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012
we need more leadership in norristown we need a mayor to help clean up norristown it use to be a great place to raise a family stop offering section 8 to philadelphia residents that bring their mess up here
Antonio r. yarbough
12:49 am on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
keep talking youll be the reason for yall problems thats how you mess up now try to make things better ok not worse philly love 4 n-town