State police have charged him with stealing a car from a Crawford woman found shot with her son on Saturday night.

MEADVILLE —Authorities believe a Crawford County man charged by the Pennsylvania State Police with stealing a woman's car and wanted for questioning in the shooting death of the woman and her 10-year-old son on Saturday night is the same person who robbed a Millcreek Township gas station at gunpoint on Sunday morning.

Millcreek police Lt. Donald Kucenski said late Monday morning that Millcreek and state police believe the same person involved in the car theft is the same person who committed the robbery. State police in Meadville identified the person as 21-year-old Cochranton resident Jack E. Turner in announcing Monday morning that they have charged Turner with stealing a car belonging to 49-year-old Shannon Whitman.

Millcreek police had not filed criminal charges against Turner in the robbery as of late Monday morning.

A family member found Whitman dead, along with her 10-year-old son whose name has not been released, inside a residence on Route 198 in Randolph Township, Crawford County, when the family member came home on Saturday at 10 p.m., according to investigators.

Whitman and the boy were shot in the residence sometime between 6:50 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday, state police reported. The deaths are being investigated as homicides.

Autopsies are scheduled for Tuesday morning in Erie County, Crawford County Coroner Scott Schell said Monday morning.

Troopers also reported on Sunday that Whitman's gray/silver 2009 Lincoln MKS sedan, license plate KXW5126, was believed to have been stolen from the residence. Turner was charged with one second-degree felony count of theft by unlawful taking in the theft of the car, according to state police and online court dockets.

Investigators said Turner is a person of interest and is wanted for questioning in the homicide investigation.

The Millcreek gas station robbery that Turner is suspected of committing was reported shortly after 5:30 a.m. Sunday at the Kwik Fill at 3360 W. 38th St. in the township. According to Millcreek police, a white male wearing a blue-and-white sweatshirt, matching sweatpants and a black ball cap with a white logo on it used a black handgun to rob the gas station of cash. The suspect was driving a silver four-door sedan, township police reported on Sunday.

Turner is described as a white male with dark brown hair and brown eyes who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds. He has a tattoo covering his right hand and trimmed eyebrows, and he frequently wears what appear to be diamond stud earrings in both ears, according to state police.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Turner is asked to call state police in Meadville at (814) 332-6911 or the Millcreek Township Police Department at 833-7777. Anonymous tips or information can be sent to state police by Twitter to @PSPTroopEPIO.

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