Feb 15, 2008 6:11 pm US/Eastern
2 Dead, Girl Injured In N.H. Murder-Suicide
ALTON, N.H. (WBZ) ―
Authorities are investigating the deaths of a man and woman in an apparent murder-suicide in an Alton, New Hampshire home on Friday. A young girl was also hurt in the attack.
The New Hampshire State Police and Attorney General's office said 44-year-old Robert Bystrack and Angela Bystrack, 42, were found shot to death in their home. Their 11-year-old daughter was also injured in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
The daughter was rushed to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center where she is listed in stable condition.
Police learned about the shootings after receiving an emergency phone call from the girl at about 7 a.m. Friday.
When officers arrived at the home on Youngtown Road they found both parents dead from gunshot wounds.
A neighbor told the New Hampshire Union Leader that police said the daughter ran from the home and said, "My mommy shot my daddy, then she shot me, then she shot herself."
Angela Bystrack recently resigned as the town's animal control officer and as a part-time police officer. Her husband, an electrician at Thompson/Center Arms in Rochester, has been active in a local snowmobile club, the Union Leader reported.
"I couldn't believe what had happened," Carol Collins, a neighbor, told WBZ's Karen Anderson. "Very friendly people."
Police officials said the investigation is in its early stages and is ongoing.
Autopsies are scheduled to be performed Saturday morning in Concord.
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