Insets, left to right: Sorin Ciortan, Emilia Ciortan (WEWS/YouTube). Background: The Ohio home where Sorin and Emilia Ciortan were found dead with their daughter’s ex-husband, who killed them both before taking his own life (WEWS/YouTube).
An Ohio woman who couldn’t reach her parents on her birthday went to their house and found her ex-husband‘s car outside, prompting her to call 911 after nobody answered the door. Police say officers arrived and found the woman’s ex and her parents dead in what appears to be a triple murder-suicide.
“The ex-wife…it was her birthday that day,” said North Royalton police Sgt. John Stolarski in an interview with local ABC affiliate WEWS. “So, that could have played a part in this … if he’s unstable, and he wanted to do something symbolic because it was her birthday.”
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Police believe Sorin and Emilia Ciortan, both 71, were killed by Stefan Pascu, also 71, inside the couple’s home on Tiffany Drive in North Royalton on Tuesday night.
The daughter went to the home around 8 p.m. after failing to reach her parents and saw Pascu’s vehicle in the driveway. “You think you have an intruder?” a police dispatcher asked after she called 911.
The woman told the dispatcher that Pascu had returned from Romania about a month earlier and was acting strangely, according to WEWS. When officers arrived at the parents’ home, they couldn’t make contact with anyone inside, and authorities then entered the residence.
They found Sorin Ciortan dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the head in an upstairs hallway. Emilia Ciortan was discovered in the dining room, also shot in the head. Pascu was dead in a room on the lower level from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but cops could not immediately find him, so a tactical police unit had to breach the home, WEWS reports.
Investigators believe Pascu shot his ex-wife’s parents with a revolver before using the same weapon to kill himself. Police have said they are not aware of any note or message left behind by Pascu. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is probing the triple murder-suicide.
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