Major Crimes Detectives Investigate Chevy Chase Murder-Suicide

The married couple were found in their home.Gaithersburg, MD – The deaths of a married couple found in their Chevy Chase home have been ruled a murder-suicide.On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Montgomery County Department of Police – 2nd District officers and Fire Rescue personnel were dispatched to the 8500 block of Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase where 61-year-old Kate Simoni Fralin and 63-year-old William Scott Fralin had been found inside of their residence with apparent gunshot wounds.The couple were both pronounced dead at the scene. A gun and ammunition were located nearby.Major Crimes detectives responded to the location, and the decedents were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for autopsy.The manner of death for Kate Simoni Fralin was determined to be a homicide. While the official cause and manner of death for William Scott Fralin are pending, his death is being investigated as a suicide.