Downtown Tyrone was the scene of a murder-suicide on Saturday evening.
\nSandra Teeters, 29, of 1250 Logan Avenue, was shot and killed by 40-year-old Matthew B. Woomer of 1111 Washington Avenue. The incident happened sometime shortly before 7:45 p.m. at Woomer\u2019s home.
\nWoomer used a .270 caliber-hunting rifle to shot Teeters and then himself. The pair was found in an upstairs bedroom after police were called to the scene.
\nIn a press release, Police Chief Joseph Beachem said a relative received a phone call from Woomer saying he had shot and killed his ex-wife. Beachem said Woomer told the relative to tell everyone he loved them and hung up. The pair was found shot dead by a relative according to Beachem.
\n\u201cAll indications are this was a murder-suicide arising from marital problems,\u201d Beachem told The Daily Herald. \u201cI believe they were legally separated. I believe the divorce was finalized.\u201d
\nBeachem said, to his knowledge, the murder-suicide was the first incident of its type in recent times in Tyrone.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a tragic thing,\u201d said Beachem. \u201cWe really hate to see these types of things.\u201d
\nBeachem was asked if autopsy or toxicology tests were planned.
\n\u201cThat really varies from scene to scene,\u201d said Beachem. \u201cThis one was pretty easily solved by the evidence we have. (In this case), I don\u2019t think any of that is planned.\u201d
\nBeachem said no one else was in the house at the time of the shooting. Woomer had three children and Teeters had two children. Beachem said all the children were with other family members or friends at the time of the incident.
\nBeachem said state police, Bellwood Police and the Blair County Coroner\u2019s office assisted at the scene.
\nThe father of one of Teeters\u2019 children drove by the Washington Avenue home on Sunday morning. He stopped and said, \u201cThis is a tragedy for everybody. Not just for the victim\u2019s children but also for Mr. Woomer\u2019s children.\u201d
\nHe said his 14-year-old son would need counseling. He said the five children left behind ranged in age from three to 14-years-old.
\nSandy Teeters\u2019 mother was reached by telephone on Sunday, but said she had no comment about the incident.
\nA patron at the Choice store in Tyrone said he had seen and spoken with Woomer at the store earlier Saturday. The patron and others said Woomer had been a regular at the store, which is located not far from where Saturday\u2019s incident happened.
\nTeeters was a graduate of South Hills Business School and was employed by Victoria\u2019s Secret in Altoona. Mr. Woomer was a 1983 graduate of Tyrone Area High School and had formerly worked at HRI Construction of State College and Albemarle Corp., Tyrone.
\nObituary notices for both Teeters and Woomer appear on page 2 in today\u2019s Daily Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Downtown Tyrone was the scene of a murder-suicide on Saturday evening. Sandra Teeters, 29, of 1250 Logan Avenue, was shot and killed by 40-year-old Matthew B. Woomer of 1111 Washington Avenue. The incident happened sometime shortly before 7:45 p.m. at Woomer\u2019s home. Woomer used a .270 caliber-hunting rifle to shot Teeters and then himself. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}