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Sons lead police to body of woman Male companion found unconscious Tuesday, August 28, 2001 By Ernie Hoffman, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
A woman was found dead and her male companion unconscious in a second-floor bedroom of the man's Greensburg apartment yesterday.
City Police Chief Richard Baric said the woman was Karen Nesbit, 53, of Penn Township.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Jerry Fritz, Westmoreland County deputy coroner.
The man, Thomas Sowash, 54, was taken to Westmoreland Regional Hospital, where he was being treated for a possible overdose, Baric said.
Baric said Nesbit's two sons became concerned when she did not return home Sunday evening. They drove to Greensburg, saw her car outside the house at 218 Alwine Ave., and called police about 11 a.m. yesterday.
No one answered their knocks when police arrived, so they broke into the house and found the couple upstairs, Baric said.
Sowash regained consciousness while police were in the apartment, Baric said, but he was incoherent and investigators were not able to question him.
Baric said investigators did not know what killed Nesbit, but an autopsy was to be performed later in the day.
He said investigators believed Nesbit died at about 2 or 3 yesterday morning.
A .22-caliber rifle loaded with 18 rounds was found near the couple, Baric said.
"But we have no reason to believe the gun was fired," he said.
Police and county detectives also found some written material in the house, but Baric would not comment on it.
Keith Hlavsa, who lives next door and is Sowash's landlord, said he was shocked by the incident. Hlavsa said he worked nights and was sleeping yesterday morning when he was awakened by the knocking of police.
"Tom's a nice guy," Hlavsa said, adding that there had never been any trouble in the house.
Hlavsa said Sowash moved in early this year and Nesbit was an occasional visitor.
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