Updated: Police Release Identities of Spencerville Murder-Suicide Shooting Victims

Man and woman found dead Saturday night in home in Spencerville area of Silver Spring

By Julie Rasicot

Updated at 2:25 p.m. Monday: A double shooting that left a man and woman dead Saturday night in a home in the Spencerville area of Silver Spring is under investigation as a domestic-related murder-suicide, Montgomery County police said.

On Monday police released the identities of those who died. The woman was identified as Bonny Jean Dibble, 53, and the man as Stuart Michael Shamberger, 56.

Capt. Paul Starks, a police spokesman, said Saturday night that officers responded around 8 p.m. to a home in the 15100 block of Peach Orchard Road for a report of a shooting. Inside the home, police along with county fire and rescue service workers found the bodies of a man and a woman. Both appeared to have been shot and a firearm was recovered at the scene. The pair were involved in a relationship and lived together in the home, according to police.

“We do not believe there is an ongoing threat to the community,” Starks said Saturday night.

The facts and circumstances surrounding the shootings remain under investigation, police said Monday.