UPDATE (October 5, 2021):
A man and woman found dead in northeast side home over the weekend have been identified. The coroner says that it was an apparent murder-suicide that occurred in the Albert Drive home.
Officers responded on Saturday afternoon after neighbors and family members had not seen them in days.
The Allen County Coroner released the following:
At about 14:35 hours on Saturday, October 2, 2021 the Allen County Coroner’s Office was contacted and advised of a death investigation located in the 4300 block of Albert Drive, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46835. Fort Wayne Police were dispatched to the residence on an attempt to contact investigation, where an elderly couple had not been heard from for a few days. Both were found deceased inside the residence.
The decedents have been positively identified as Janet Joyce Peters, female white 71 years of age, from Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana and Richard Allen Peters, male white 75 years of age, from Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The deceased are husband and wife.
The Cause of Death of Janet Joyce Peters is Gunshot Wound of the Head and the Manner of Death is Homicide. The Cause of Death of Richard Allen Peters is Gunshot Wound of the Head and the Manner of Death is Suicide. Janet Joyce Peters is the 31th Homicide in Allen County for 2021. This remains under investigation by the Fort Wayne Police Department and the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
ORIGINAL STORY:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Fort Wayne Police Department officials say that a man and woman were found dead in a home on Albert Drive – located in a neighborhood between Stellhorn and Reed Roads. Officers responded on Saturday afternoon after neighbors and family members had not seen them in days. Right now, police say they don’t have much to go on and they’re waiting on results from the coroner.
FWPD officials released the following:
On October 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm The Fort Wayne Police department responded to the 4300 Block of Albert Drive in reference to a request to attempt to make contact with the occupants in a home that had not been seen in a few days by neighbors as well as family members had not been able to make contact with them.
Officers arrived on scene as a family member arrived as well and they made entry into the home and found an adult male and adult female unresponsive inside the home. Fort Wayne Fire Department and Paramedics from Three Rivers Ambulance Authority arrived and pronounced both victims deceased.
Fort Wayne Police Detectives along with Crime Scene personnel were called to the scene to conduct this investigation
The Identities of the victims as well as the cause and manner of death will be released at a later time by the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
This incident is being investigated by the Fort Wayne Police Department, Allen County Coroner’s Office, and the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office.
