Plano East Senior High School students commit suicide within hours of each other News 2 Plano East Senior High School students commit suicide within hours of each other Police in Murphy are investigating the suicides of two young women who were acquaintances and students at Plano East Senior High School.  Updated at 10:30 p.m. 
 
 Two Plano East High School friends were found dead within hours of each other over the weekend, and their deaths are being investigated as suicides, Murphy police said. Plano ISD provided grief counselors at the school Sunday and will provide additional counselors on Monday, district spokeswoman Lesley Range-Stanton said. Relatives found the body of Ritu Sachdeva in her Murphy home shortly after midnight Sunday and called emergency services. A couple of hours later, police found the body of Hillary Kate Kuizon in a wooded area south of Kimbrough Stadium, near Murphy Middle School and McMillen High School, police said. No motives have been identified, and no evidence of foul play has so far been detected,” the Murphy Police Department said in a statement. Police say the young women were friends, and those that knew them describe both girls as smart, beautiful and nice. “We don’t know if it was but we don’t want to discount the possibility offhand.” 
 
 The causes of death will be determined by the medical examiner. But I really think that just talking about it would help.” 
 
 Murphy Police Chief Arthur Cotton issued a statement saying — 
 
 “Our thoughts and prayers are with the two families. We are treating these two cases with the care and compassion they deserve, and will continue to seek answers for the families.” 
 
 Police say they’re still trying to determine if the deaths are related, but at this point it’s not clear if there is a connection. Investigators are talking to relatives to determine if there is any connection between the two deaths.
– On Saturday night, 17-year-old Hillary Kate Kuizon was reported missing. By a few hours after midnight Sunday, both she and a friend, 17-year-old Ritu Sachdeva, had both been found dead by suspected suicide in Murphy, Texas. "If ... there was some sort of pact, we need to know that because it may lead to further tragedies such as this one," a city spokesman says, per the Dallas Morning News. "We don’t know if it was but we don’t want to discount the possibility offhand." Relatives found Ritu's body in her home, and within just a few hours, police found Hillary's body in a wooded area. The medical examiner has yet to release the causes of death of the Plano East High School students—who were friends, police tell CBS DFW. "Both deaths occurred within hours of each other under circumstances that have led investigators to presume they were both self-inflicted," says the Murphy Police Department in a statement. "No motives have been identified, and no evidence of foul play has so far been detected." Friends of the girls tell Fox 4 they didn't seem depressed, and were well-liked. (An Alaska village recently experienced a suicidal domino effect.)