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Attorney General says autopsy confirms Manchester couple was killed in a murder-suicide

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Attorney General says autopsy confirms Manchester couple was killed in a murder-suicide

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MANCHESTER, N.H.- The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office says an autopsy has confirmed that a Manchester man shot and killed his wife and then himself in a murder-suicide which also left the couple’s child seriously injured.

On Wednesday authorities confirmed that Bianchinies, AKA “Benny” Cruz, 36 shot his wife Alisha Cruz, 35, numerous times inside their Wheelock Street home before taking his own life.

Authorities also say that when Cruz fired his weapon several bullets went through a wall and hit the couple’s 8-year-old son in the torso, leaving him seriously injured.

Following the shooting the child was airlifted to a Boston hospital where he’s listed in stable condition.

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