Overview
- Officers responding to a reported domestic assault on Nov. 25 found 31-year-old Violette Pierre dead from stab wounds on the 300 block of South 17th Street.
- Police identified the injured man at the scene as Rocheny Clerge, 33, and later charged him with murder and possession of an instrument of a crime.
- The Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office and investigators determined that Clerge’s neck injury was self-inflicted.
- Police performed life-saving measures on Clerge before transporting him to a local hospital, and the investigation remains open.
- Authorities ask anyone with information to call Harrisburg Police at 717-558-6900 or submit tips through the Crimewatch website, noting this was the city’s 11th homicide of 2025 compared with 20 at this time last year.