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NEWPORT TWP. – Neighbors said they didn’t expect the violence that occurred in 47 Coal St. in the Glen Lyon section Monday afternoon. In fact, the first sign of problems they saw came around 3:30 p.m., when they said three women rushed out of the residence screaming.

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State Police investigate the site of a double homicide in Glen Lyon.

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“We were watching TV and we just heard three pops, and we thought it was firecrackers,” said neighbor Ken Angradi, who added that there was “a pop, pop and a little delay. … Then we heard screaming, and I knew something was wrong.”

The women pleaded for someone to call 911, saying that a man had shot his girlfriend dead. One of the women then returned to the home, according to Angradi, and confirmed that the man also had turned the gun on himself.

Investigators wouldn’t reveal any details about the male and female they removed in body bags from the home, but the woman’s daughter, 19-year-old Heather Tolodzieski, confirmed what she had seen.

She said her mother, Lynn Kranson, was “shot in the head by her scumbag boyfriend,” whom she described as a Cuban in his 50s who had been living in the United States for about 15 years.

The couple and a younger daughter had been living for less than a year in the lower-level apartment of the two-story, three-apartment brick building at the corner of Coal and Spring streets, Angradi said.

The names of the dead were not released officially because their families hadn’t yet been contacted, Luzerne County Coroner John Corcoran said. He said the details of the incident weren’t known yet, but he noted there was “absolutely nothing” for the public to fear.

The bodies were taken to the morgue at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital for autopsies, and no further information was released Monday evening.

Though Tolodzieski said the man was a boyfriend, Angradi said the man referred to the deceased woman as his wife.

There weren’t any previous hints of issues at the home, neighbors said. Carlos Orengo, who lives a few houses away on Spring Street, said he saw Kranson daily while walking his dog.

Around 8 a.m., she would wave and enter a blue Chevrolet Cavalier, he said. “She says, ‘Hi,’” he said. “She never bothers nobody.”

Kranson worked at the Guardian Elder Care Center on Newport Street in Nanticoke, according to a man who said he was an ex-boyfriend and gave only his first name, Brian.