A young couple in Pennsylvania who were high school sweethearts are both dead in what authorities say was a murder-suicide carried out by the husband less than two years after their wedding.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, 26-year-old Ryan Hosso fatally shot his wife, 25-year-old Madeline Spatafore, inside their home in Butler, Pennsylvania early Tuesday. Investigators said he then fled into nearby woods, where he later died by suicide.

Officials said Hosso contacted his parents at some point after the shooting, confessing to killing Spatafore and indicating he planned to take his own life. His parents alerted authorities around 1:15 a.m., prompting officers to respond to the couple’s home, where Spatafore was found dead.

According to the New York Post, law enforcement later used thermal drones to locate Hosso’s body in a wooded area nearby, according to the Cranberry Eagle. Police said Spatafore suffered multiple gunshot wounds, while Hosso sustained a single fatal injury.

The couple had married in September 2024 in Ohio, according to their wedding registry. Both were graduates of Seneca Valley High School in Harmony, about 10 miles from their home in Seven Fields, Pennsylvania.

Spatafore graduated in 2019 before attending Duquesne University, where she earned a degree in health services and graduated summa cum laude in 2023. She was working as a critical care physician assistant at UPMC Presbyterian at the time of her death, per the New York Post.

Hosso previously worked as a mechanical engineer at Vavco, though the company’s owner told WPXI that he had not been employed there for several years.

Authorities have not identified a motive. The investigation remains ongoing.