ELIZABETH CITY, Va. (WVEC) — Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible murder-suicide in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
On Sunday, officials received a 911 call around 4:45 p.m. in the 1200 block of Sawyer Road in reference to a possible suicide.
On the scene, deputies found a woman in a chair on the back porch with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. EMS transported the woman, 53-year-old Gina Jenette Cross, to a local hospital where she later died.
During the investigating, deputies found a man in the bedroom who had died from a gunshot wound. The man was identified as 70-year-old William Preston Deane.
Cross and Deane lived at the residence.
Deputies are treating this incident as a murder-suicide, and no further information has been released at this time.
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