A driver who crashed is vehicle into a tree was in critical condition Sunday night, according to Fort Wayne police.Just before 8:30 p.m.Two Wabash residents are dead, a woman shot to death in a car and a man who apparently shot himself in a neighbor's yard, Wabash police say.
The Wabash Police Department was called to the 700 block of Courtland Avenue at 6:39 p.m. Monday by a woman reporting there was a man with a shotgun in a nearby yard, the department said in a statement. It said she told police she saw two children run from a car into the house, but did not see the driver leave.
The car had crashed into a tree stump, and officers found Jennifer M. Parrett, 27, dead inside, apparently from a gunshot wound, the statement said.
It said a neighbor told police she saw Ryan F. Hunt, 27, shoot himself in a nearby yard. Police said he was dead when they got to him.
Police are treating the deaths as a murder-suicide stemming from a domestic dispute. Both lived at 745 Courtland Ave., the statement said.
