Girl, 2, a victim of Forty Fort murder-suicide

FORTY FORT - Police said Nicholas Shultz shot his 2-year-old daughter and then turned the gun on himself, in what the Luzerne County Coroner's Office has ruled a murder-suicide.
Officers from Forty Fort and surrounding towns were dispatched to 52 Wesley St. at 11 a.m. Sunday on the report of a man with a gun threatening to kill himself and his daughter.
When police entered the house, they found a young girl, Camryn Lee Shultz, dead on the couch with one gunshot wound to the head, police said. Her father, Nicholas, 34, was found on the floor, also with one gunshot wound to the head, and was then transported to Geisinger Medical Center in Plains Township before eventually dying at the hospital, according to police.
Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said the next step is an investigation to determine the cause of the shooting, as they have no official motive yet.
Tom Hess, Camryn's grandfather, told WBRE-TV that his daughter, Jessie, and the child had been staying with him for the past week ever since Jessie and Nicholas split up.
Hess told the station that his daughter received a chilling call from Nicholas on Sunday, in which he told her, "Say goodbye to your daughter."
Salavantis said she did not believe that Shultz had a past riddled with domestic nor criminal violence. A search through the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Web Portal backed up her notion, as Shultz appears to have no criminal history in Luzerne County.
When asked if "senseless" was the correct word to describe this murder-suicide, Salavantis said, "That's the perfect word for this tragic day."
By Sunday's end, the yellow police tape that had surrounded the residence was taken down, replaced with a small assortment of stuffed animals and flowers outside the house.