Prosecutor: Deaths of woman, man probed as murder-suicide

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The deaths of a woman and a man in New Jersey are being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.

Jersey City police found an unresponsive man in the Hudson River on Sunday morning, the Hudson County prosecutor’s office said. The 37-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene just before 8 a.m. Sunday, prosecutors said.

Officers responding to his residence found an unresponsive woman with apparent upper body trauma, prosecutors said. Kothari Garima, 35, who also lived in the home, was pronounced dead at the scene at about 7:15 a.m. Sunday, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said “it appears at this time that these deaths are the result of a murder-suicide" but the final determination is pending the findings of the regional medical examiner's office. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.