Authorities believe an Eastern Panhandle man shot his 9-year-old son to death and set their home on fire before killing himself last month in Glengary.



State Police Sgt. J.D. Burkhart tells media outlets there's no reason to think anyone else was involved in the deaths of 56-year-old David Cole Hutzler and 9-year-old James "Mack" Hutzler.

Both bodies were found in a rear bedroom, and autopsies later located gunshot wounds.

Burkhart says David Hutzler had seemed unstable to friends and families over the past few months. He'd recently told them that he and his son were going on a vacation and not coming back.

A memorial service for James Hutzler is set for Sunday at Brown Funeral Home in Martinsburg, the day after what would have been his 10th birthday.

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