{"id":50462,"date":"2025-09-30T12:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50462"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:35:55","slug":"mother-father-and-autistic-son-suffered-violent-deaths-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50462","title":{"rendered":"Mother, father and autistic son suffered violent deaths, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three members of a family who were found dead at their home in Drumgowna, County Louth, suffered &#8220;violent&#8221; deaths, garda\u00ed (Irish police) have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They confirmed the victims&#8217; names as Louise O&#8217;Connor, who was 56, her 54-year-old husband Mark O&#8217;Connor and their 27-year-old son, Evan O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supt Andrew Watters told reporters that it was a homicide incident and post-mortem examinations will begin on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man in his 30s remains in custody and Supt Watters said garda\u00ed were &#8220;not looking for any other person at this juncture in connection with this investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The O&#8217;Connor family are &#8220;very well-known and respected,&#8221; the officer told reporters who had gathered at Drogheda Garda Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They are good neighbours and an integral part of their local community in Drumgowna and wider area of Louth and Monaghan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers will support their surviving family members &#8220;as they come to terms with this tragedy&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supt Watters added they would also support the Drumgowna community &#8220;as they come to terms with the violent death of their neighbours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Three members of a family who were found dead at their home in Drumgowna, County Louth, suffered &#8220;violent&#8221; deaths, garda\u00ed (Irish police) have said. They confirmed the victims&#8217; names as Louise O&#8217;Connor, who was 56, her 54-year-old husband Mark O&#8217;Connor and their 27-year-old son, Evan O&#8217;Connor. Supt Andrew Watters told reporters that it was a homicide incident and post-mortem examinations will begin on Tuesday morning. A man in his 30s remains in custody and Supt Watters said garda\u00ed were &#8220;not looking for any other person at this juncture in connection with this investigation&#8221;. The O&#8217;Connor family are &#8220;very well-known&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50464,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50462\/revisions\/50464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}