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Jun 25, 2009 9:56 am US/Eastern

Autopsy: Drugs, No Alcohol In Murder-Suicide Dad

FREDERICK (AP) ― The Frederick County Sheriff's office says an autopsy found a father involved in a Middletown murder-suicide that claimed the lives of his wife and their three young children had prescription drugs in his system, but not alcohol.

Don Scott reports the autopsy also found Christopher Alan Wood, 34, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The sheriff's office said the drugs matched those found in the home and the case is being closed as a murder-suicide.

Police say Wood, an account manager for railroad operator CSX Corp., shot his children and wife, Francis Billotti Wood, 33,with a small-caliber handgun as they slept on the night of April 16 and then killed himself with a shotgun the next day.

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