Crime

Man k!lls wife, daughter, and himself in family's mansion

By Linda Ikeji 7 October 2026, 7:25 am 0 comments

A New Jersey insurance executive f@tally shot his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself inside their mansion.

David Grodnick, 61, his wife Lora Grodnick, 62, and daughter, Sloane Grodnick, 24, were each found with gunshot wounds to the head in the Montgomery Township home on Oct. 2, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Investigators determined Lora and Sloane’s d£aths to be homicides and David’s a su!cide.

Sloane and her mother Lora pose with singer Rod Stewart in 2019

It was not immediately clear how long the three had been de@d.

Cops were first called to a home on Wild Azalea Lane at about 2:59 p.m. on Oct. 1, after receiving a request for a welfare check on the residents, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Officers were unable to locate the occupants and an investigation began into their whereabouts.

They gained entry to the home just before 6 p.m. the next day and discovered the three bodies.

Lora and Sloane were found in separate bedrooms and David was found elsewhere in the home with a gun still in his hand, prosecutors said.

All three were declared de@d at the $1.75 million home.

David and daughter Sloane

“The investigation, which remains ongoing, has yielded that the homicide de@ths of both Lora and Sloane Grodnick were an isolated incident and there are no threats to the public from this tragic occurrence,” Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said on Tuesday, October 6.

David Grodnick was a senior vice president and underwriting counsel for Land Services USA, a Philadelphia-based insurance agency working on commercial real estate transactions across the country, according to the Montgomery News.

He had a degree in business administration from the University of Miami and a BA in English from McDaniel College, where he played lacrosse, the outlet reported.

Sloane Grodnick graduated from The Hun School, a ritzy private boarding school in Princeton, before graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design, according to the Montgomery News.

Sloane

She had been pursuing a master’s degree at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The family had moved to Montgomery Township from Princeton and were members of the exclusive Bedens Brook Country Club in Skillman as well as TPC Jasna Polana, a premier private club in Princeton.