{"id":197405,"date":"2025-09-21T20:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197405"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:54:31","slug":"murder-suicide-confirmed-in-delphos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/21\/murder-suicide-confirmed-in-delphos\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder-suicide confirmed in Delphos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DELPHOS &#8212; A shooting that left two people dead in Delphos last Monday has officially been ruled a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press release issued by the Delphos Police Department, autopsies conducted by the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed what had taken place at a home in the 300 block of S. Bredeick St. Police were called to the residence after gunshots were heard inside the home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased were identified as Carol M. Short, 68, who died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, and Timothy Short, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Their bodies were both released to the funeral home upon completion of the autopsies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators are awaiting toxicology test results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff DELPHOS &#8212; A shooting that left two people dead in Delphos last Monday has officially been ruled a murder-suicide. According to a press release issued by the Delphos Police Department, autopsies conducted by the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed what had taken place at a home in the 300 block of S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 08:56:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197435,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197405\/revisions\/197435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}