Authorities Investigating Double Murder on Arch Street

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.