A caretaker found an elderly couple dead from gunshot wounds at their Jacksonville home in what police are calling domestic murder-suicide.
Sgt. Steve Rudlaff said the caretaker had seen them the prior day and then found them unresponsive in about 7:30 a.m. June 25 in their Clements Woods Lane home off Lone Star Road. The husband and wife were 75 to 80 years old. He said a handgun also was located at the scene but investigators couldn’t say at the moment who was the shooter.
He also said they’re looking into their backgrounds and medical histories to try to determine what may have led up to this.
Property and voting records show the couple both were 76 years old and had no domestic issues between the two in Duval County court records.
This is the second murder-suicide of the year in Jacksonville, according to Times-Union records. The other also was domestic in nature.
On Feb. 20 two women and a man were found shot to death, one self-inflicted, in a double murder-suicide at their Gilmore Street home between McDuff and Edgewood avenues. The man was the shooter, according to a police report. Christina Supreme, 48, had told her daughter she was getting a divorce and that her husband, Born Lord Supreme, 61, had been threatening her. Her daughter said he had been violent toward her in the past and she begged her to leave him. The other woman, 68-year-old Pamela Kay Gibbs, was under her care.
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Times-Union records show four local murder-suicides in 2024 and five in 2023.
(This story has been updated with some records research.)
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Elderly couple found shot in apparent murder-suicide, according to Jacksonville police
Reporting by Scott Butler, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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