Officials in New Hampshire are investigating what they say is a probable murder-suicide that left a mother and a 3-year-old boy dead early Friday morning.
Pembroke police officers responded around 1:00 a.m. in response to a 911 call, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
Responding officers made contact with the resident who called 911.
Officers went into the upstairs bedroom and found a mother and child suffering from serious gunshot wounds.
The mother, identified as 26-year-old Julia Byrne, was pronounced dead inside the home. The boy, identified as 3-year-old Blake Byrne, was rushed to Concord Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy on both Byrnes’s.
Julia Byrne’s cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head, and her manner of death is pending.
Blake Byrne’s cause of death was a single gunshot wound of the head, and the manner of his death was homicide.
NH mother and 3-year-old child who died in suspected murder-suicide identified by officials
Officials in New Hampshire are investigating what they say is a probable murder-suicide that left a mother and a 3-year-old boy dead early Friday morning.
