A young couple from Pennsylvania, who were high school sweethearts, have d!ed in an apparent murd£r-suicide carried out by the husband of less than two years after their wedding.
Ryan Hosso, 26, gunned down his physician assistant wife, 25-year-old Madeline Spatafore, inside their Butler, Pa., home early Tuesday before retreating into nearby woods, where he turned the gun on himself, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Hosso called his parents at some point between Spatafore’s murder and his su!cide. During the brief call, he confessed to k!lling Spatafore and threatened to take his own life, cops said.
Hosso’s parents reported their son’s erratic behavior to authorities around 1:15 a.m. Tuesday.
When officers responded, they found Spatafore dead inside the home. Police used thermal drones to locate Hosso’s body in the woods, the Cranberry Eagle reported.
Spatafore sustained “multiple gunsh0t wounds,” while Hosso only had one injury, police said.
The couple tied the knot in Ohio in September 2024, according to their wedding registry.
They both graduated from Seneca Valley High School in Harmony, Pennsylvania, just 10 miles outside their home in Seven Fields, a borough of Butler.
Police have yet to determine a motive for the disturbing sho0ting, and investigations are still ongoing.