Person of interest in Churchville murders died

A 26-year-old man believed to have stabbed and shot to death a young Churchville, Pa. couple this week has been found dead in Philadelphia. At a news conference Wednesday evening in Northampton Township, authorities disclosed the death of suspect Daniel Mooney from an apparent drug overdose. They said they are confident that it was Mooney who killed Tyler Roy, 28, and his wife, Christina Roy, 27, in their home the night before he died. The bodies of the Roys had been found Tuesday morning on the upper floor of their split-level home at 26 Kitty Knight Drive in the Churchville section of Northampton. Both victims had been stabbed repeatedly and shot. Investigators believe they were murdered sometime overnight, and that the killer had stolen Tyler Roy's 2016 Ford Edge SUV. The vehicle was found, along with Mooney's cell phone, early Wednesday morning in Northeast Philadelphia. By that time, unknown to investigators, Mooney was already dead. Mooney had been taken to Temple University Hospital's Episcopal Campus in Philadelphia after suffering an apparent drug overdose around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Efforts to revive him failed. Mooney had long struggled with drug addiction, though it is not yet known whether he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the murders.

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