Clarification: Rosario Curcio and Lana Florio’s membership status at the Pleasant Valley Trout and Game Club was initially supplied incorrectly by the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office.

Police are investigating what led to a former couple's deadly encounter at a sportsman's club that left a woman dead and a Town of Poughkeepsie man charged with murder.

Rosario Curcio, 70, is in Dutchess County Jail, facing a second-degree murder charge and a grand jury investigation, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies responded to the Pleasant Valley Trout and Game Club on Salt Point Turnpike at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. They found 56-year-old Lana Florio, of the Town of Poughkeepsie critically injured with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.

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Florio was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said she was shot with a pistol that belonged to Curcio.

Carl Bertsche, president of the Pleasant Valley Trout and Game Club, said in a statement: “Neither of the parties involved in the shooting were members of our club. Both were guests at the time of the incident.”

The two did not arrive at the club together, "but just happened to be there at the same time," Watterson said.

Watterson said after Florio was shot, Curcio was "restrained until police arrival by people who were there," and he did not resist arrest when deputies arrived.

An autopsy of Florio was to be conducted on Wednesday. No results were available by press time.

Curcio and Florio were ex-boyfriend and girlfriend, Watterson said, and it is "unclear if it was a domestic dispute. There was no indication of any sort of argument or discussion before the shooting."

Curcio was arraigned before the Town of Pleasant Valley Court and sent to the Dutchess County Jail with no bail. Grand jury proceedings are pending, Watterson said.

Florio was listed as treasurer of Crum Elbow Sportsmen Association in Hyde Park. According to its website, the club promotes sportsmanship and education in the conservation of wildlife and the good will of landowners.

Attempts to reach members of the Pleasant Valley Trout and Game Club and Crum Elbow Sportsmen Association were unsuccessful.

According to various real estate listings, Curcio owns a property at 22 Front St. in the Village of Millbrook, listed at $450,000. The commercial building is listed as having three separate rental spaces, including a pizza restaurant, commercial store front and large second floor residential apartment.

Domestic danger

This is the third arrest in two weeks involving a couple, or former couple, that resulted in homicide charges.

On Sept. 20, Marcena Edwards was charged with first-degree manslaughter. That was a week after she told police a male teenager had fatally stabbed her companion, Nakia Bruton, after they had been harassed by a group of teens on Winnikee Avenue.

Police later said her account was fictional and she had stabbed Bruton, of Hyde Park, once in the chest during an argument in a car on Winnikee Avenue on Sept. 14.

On Sept. 28, Nicole Addimando, 28, flagged down a Town of Poughkeepsie patrol officer early in the morning and told them she had been "involved in an incident with her boyfriend," police said. Officers checked on 30-year-old Christopher Grover's welfare "and found him deceased at their residence."

He had been shot in the head, police said. Addimando was charged with second-degree murder and sent to Dutchess County Jail.

Sounds of gunshots

Mary Mashburn said living across from the club for the last 11 years, the sounds of gunshots “aren’t going to necessary sound suspicious.” But then law enforcement began to show up in numbers.

“I’ve never seen so many sheriff’s (deputies) and state troopers before,” she said.

“There’s been little things, like people shooting before hours. But nothing like this,” the 35-year-old Pleasant Valley resident said. “It’s just a place where people go and practice shooting, contribute to events, and it’s just such a shame.

“You kind of wait for these things to happen, and you have these thoughts like ‘could it have been prevented?’” Mashburn said.

Abbott Brant: abrant@poughkeepsiejournal.com, 845-437-4809, Twitter: @AbbottBrantPoJo