Cops: Dispute over ‘intimate partner’ spurred murder-suicide
ROSS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say the shooting deaths of a researcher who was studying the coronavirus and another man were sparked by a “long-running dispute over an intimate partner.” Bing Liu was shot multiple times Saturday in the head, neck and torso in his townhouse in Ross. The shooter, Hao Gu, of Pittsburgh, then got into his car parked at the complex and killed himself. Ross police did not provide further details about the motive for the shooting except to note that Liu’s work as a research assistant professor with the School of Medicine.at the University of Pittsburgh did not play a role in the murder-suicide.