Michael John Parrish
July 7, 2009
Police looking for Effort man in Chestnuthill fatal shootings of girlfriend, son
Police are looking for Michael John Parrish, 23, a suspect in Monday night's fatal shootings of Victoria Marie Adams, 21, and Sidney Michael Parrish, 2, in the house on Route 115, just north of Gilbert Road, in Chestnuthill Township.
At 11:05 p.m. Monday, state police at Fern Ridge got a call about gunshots being fired at that location, where Parrish had been living with Adams and the toddler, according to a police affidavit.
Police looking for Effort man in Chestnuthill fatal shootings of girlfriend, son
At 11:14 p.m., James Ahern, 21, of Effort contacted police and told them the following:
He arrived at Parrish's home earlier that night and dropped off Adams and the boy. Parrish approached him, pointed what Ahern believed to be a 9 mm handgun at him and fired.
Ahern fled the scene unharmed, went to a friend's house and called police. He didn't know what happened to Adams and the boy after he fled.
Police later arrived at the home and found Adams and the toddler dead. Parrish had left.
Police were joined on scene Tuesday morning by detectives from the Monroe County District Attorney's Office.
At about 9:30 a.m., investigators helped the county Coroner's Office remove the victims' bodies, Adams in a body bag and the toddler wrapped in a white sheet, from the two-story multi-family dwelling.
Police stopped traffic both ways until the bodies were placed in back of the coroner's van. One motorist wept with her hand covering her mouth and wiped her eyes as she saw the bodies taken out and placed in the van.
Jared Ulrich, who lives nearby on Route 115, said his father went to bed at about 9:30 p.m. Monday, woke up sometime later to what sounded like firecrackers and then went back to sleep. Ulrich arrived home at about 11:30 p.m. and saw police cars swarming the area.
"The cops had their guns out and they were searching the area," he said. "Once they found out I lived here, they ordered me to get inside my house and stay inside."
Declining to give her name, another neighbor on Route 115 said she, too, heard loud noises like firecrackers and looked out of her window.
She saw a car heading south on 115, away from the house where the murders occurred, but couldn't get a description or license plate because it was dark outside. She wasn't sure if the car had stopped at the house or was passing by.
Neighbor Lyle Metzgar said it's not unusual to hear gunshots nearby because of shooting ranges in the area.
"I didn't know what was going on until this morning," Metzgar said. "I heard reporters saying they heard a woman and child had been shot. Who would want to shoot a child?"
None of the neighbors interviewed knew the victims or anything about them. Anyone with information on Parrish's whereabouts is asked to call police at (570) 646-2271.
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