Authorities in Orleans County are trying to determine what could have led to a murder-suicide Sunday in the Town of Carlton.
The sheriff's office says Henry Spoon Jr., of Lockport, slit the throat of his 14-year-old son, Shawn, then shot him in the head with a rifle.
Spoon then shot and killed himself.
Sheriff Chris Bourke says there was no history of trouble at home, but investigators found four discarded electronic devices a few miles from the scene
The bodies were found a few hundred feet from their car, at an orchard off Kendrick Road.
The father had custody of the teen. The boy's mother lives in South Carolina.