(Stowe Twp., Pa.) Allegheny County police said 60-year-old Timothy Gumm is being charged with homicide in the death of his 55 year old brother Christopher and his brother’s 47 year old girlfriend, Sally Sines after the two were found dead in a Stowe Township home on Thursday.

Police responded to the home in the 900 block of Liberty Street for a welfare check on Thursday morning and when they arrived, they found Sines and Christopher Gumm dead and there bodies in a state of decomposing. Police were able to determine the victims were shot but were not able to verify their cause of death.
Gumm was also charged with tampering with evidence and a firearms violation. He was taken to the county jail to await arraignment.