Insurance Exec and Family Found Dead in NJ Home: Murder-Suicide Suspected
Insurance executive and family found dead in New Jersey home. Authorities suspect murder-suicide after welfare check.
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Police in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, discovered an insurance executive, his wife, and their daughter dead from gunshot wounds inside their home on Thursday. The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the deaths, with the two women ruled as homicides and the man found dead by suicide.
David Grodnick, 61, Lora Grodnick, 62, and their daughter Sloane, 24, were pronounced dead at the scene. Officers received a welfare-check request for the address on Thursday afternoon, but were unable to reach anyone in the home. The next day, just before 6 p.m., they entered the residence and found the mother and daughter in separate bedrooms. Grodnick was found elsewhere in the house, a gun still in his hand, with what investigators described as a self-inflicted wound.
🚨 A New Jersey insurance executive, his wife and their 24-year-old daughter were found shot to death inside the family’s luxury mansion.
The prosecutor’s office ruled the women’s deaths as homicides and his as a suicide. Montgomery police, the prosecutor’s Major Crimes Unit, the crime-scene unit, and the Northern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office all responded to the incident. Prosecutor John P. McDonald stated there are no threats to the public from this tragic occurrence.
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David Grodnick was a senior vice president and underwriting counsel at Land Services USA, a Philadelphia commercial real-estate insurance firm. His daughter, Sloane, was working toward a master’s degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Grodnicks had previously lived in Princeton and were members of exclusive country clubs in Skillman and Princeton.
Another sad story.
NJ.com highlighted a 2011 Times of Trenton editorial about Sloane, then 9, after she collected toys and clothes for an 8-year-old girl in Trenton. Two local schools joined the drive. The article originally appeared on The Western Journal.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
