Greenville County Coroner Mike Ellis says a couple who were found dead Saturday after fire in their home died as a result of a homicide/suicide. Ellis says the woman has been positively identified as 46 year old Lisa Rae Creta. The coroner’s office believes she died around 3 a.m on Saturday. The coroner says she died of multiple gun shot wounds to the head. Her last known employer was the U.S. Justice Department of Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Ellis says the man has been tentatively identified as 48 year old Robert Frank Creta Jr. The coroner’s office estimates the death happened around 5 a.m Saturday. Ellis says he died due to a gun shot wound to the head and the injury was consistent with being self inflicted. Creta's last known employer was the ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms).
Ellis says the couple had been married 20 years.
Investigators also found a 4 year old pitbull/lab mix who died of multiple gun shot wounds.
Saturday
Investigators from the Greenville County Sheriff's office and the State Law Enforcement Division are investigating a house fire that has killed two people in Greenville County.
According to authorities, firefighters from the Duncan Chapel Fire Department responded to a fire around 7 am Saturday at a home at 1 Belle Terre Ct., in the Summerset Manor sub-division, near Furman University. Authorities with the Greenville County coroner's office tell News Channel 7 that two people have died as a result of the fire.
Greenville County Sheriff's spokesperson Melissia McKinney, says that when officers arrived at the scene, the home was fully engulfed in flames. McKinney says that they have not determined a cause of the fire, but arson investigators from the Sheriff's Office and investigators from the State Law Enforcement Division are assisting in the investigation.
A source close to the investigation tells News Channel 7 that the cause of the fire is "suspicious" in nature.
Neighbors said the couple had just moved in about three months ago. "When people perish in a fire it can just really hit you. They don't really seem to have a chance to get out," Penny Bostain said about her neighbors. Bostain says the couple walked their dog several times a day.
Investigators hope to know the exact cause of death and the names of the victims once the autopsies are completed. The autopsies are scheduled for Monday.
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