Natalie Peleschak, 55, female, was shot in her home on South Center Street in Frackville just after midnight on October 4, 2025. Police and troopers were dispatched at 12:06 a.m. to the residence, where the Schuylkill County coroner pronounced Natalie Peleschak, 55, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. Officers found her husband, Andrew Peleschak, outside near the garage, bleeding from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was taken into custody without incident and flown to
Geisinger Medical Center for treatment. Investigators recovered ammunition at the scene, including. 45-caliber pistol magazines, as they secured the home and began their homicide probe.
According to charging documents summarized by local outlets, the initial 911 call that summoned officers came from a man who said he had killed his wife and tried to shoot himself. Responding Frackville Borough officers and Pennsylvania State Police found Natalie Peleschak, 55, with multiple gunshot wounds inside the residence while her husband was located outside. Early reports from the scene and subsequent updates consistently identified the victim as Natalie Peleschak, 55, of Frackville, and described the incident as criminal homicide.
Andrew J. Peleschak, 56, was arrested and later charged with first-degree murder and third-degree murder, along with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and simple assault. Police and court summaries indicate those charges stem from the fatal shooting of his wife, Natalie Peleschak, 55, inside their home. Within days, authorities reported that he had been formally arraigned on the murder counts while the investigation continued.
Local and regional outlets noted early inconsistencies in preliminary accounts typical of breaking investigations—some reports suggested Natalie Peleschak, 55, was transported before succumbing to her wounds, while others, supported by the coroner’s pronouncement, stated she was found deceased at the scene. What remained consistent across the updates was that police treated the death of Natalie Peleschak, 55, female, as a homicide, and that her husband, Andrew Peleschak, was the sole arrested suspect in the case.
