A Jersey Shore resident shot and killed his wife then turned the gun on himself, said Atlantic County Prosecutors.
Police responded to a home on North Oxford Avenue in Ventnor at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in response to a call to check the well-being of the residents inside. When they arrived they found a man and woman both dead of single gunshot wounds to the head.
On Friday, police identified the residents as Marianne Wilson-Allen, 59, and Richard Allen, 60. The county medical examiner ruled Wilson-Allen's death a homicide and Allen's a suicide caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
If you have any information on the incident, please call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit at 609-909-7666, or the Ventnor City Police Department at 609-822-2101.
SUICIDE PREVENTION HELP: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255) is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
