2 Morrison County deaths ruled murder-suicide, sheriff's office says
Two people were found dead in central Minnesota Friday morning in what authorities say was a murder-suicide.
The Morrison County Sheriff's Office says they were asked to perform a welfare check at a home on the 600 block of River Valley Road in Pierz. They arrived shortly after 10:30 a.m. to find a woman and a man dead.
The two were identified as 32-year-old Crystal Marschel and her boyfriend, 34-year-old John Gans. They both died from gunshot wounds, and a .40 caliber handgun was found at the scene, the sheriff's office says.
Marschel's death was ruled a homicide, and Gans died by suicide, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.
Pierz is roughly 30 miles north of St. Cloud.
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