Overview
- Police identified the victim as 31-year-old Violette Pierre, and the coroner ruled her death a homicide caused by stab wounds.
- An affidavit says the couple’s 13-year-old son returned home around noon, saw the attack, and ran outside to tell bystanders.
- Surveillance video shows the boy leaving for school around 8:38 a.m. and no one entering the home before his return; police say a large knife was found next to the suspect.
- Officers found Rocheny Clerge, 33, on top of Pierre with a severe neck wound that investigators determined was self-inflicted, and they performed life-saving measures before he was hospitalized.
- Clerge is charged with murder and possession of an instrument of a crime, and this is the 11th homicide reported in Harrisburg in 2025.