Couple Dies in Apparent Murder-Suicide

New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster. Courtesy of http://www.doj.nh.gov// .

A husband and wife died in an apparent murder-suicide at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover early Tuesday, the state attorney general’s office and Dover Police said in a press release.

The victims’ names are being withheld pending notification of their next of kin, officials said.

Dover Police responded to a roughly 6:03 a.m. 911 call from the hospital reporting shots fired in the building, officials said.

Officers found “ a deceased adult male and his deceased adult wife in a room inside the hospital’s critical care unit,” officials said.

“While the investigation is still in the early stages and ongoing, the two deaths appear to be the result of a murder-suicide,” they said.

The medical examiner’s office will conduct autopsies.