Upscale Murder/Suicide In Georgia

"Harris County, GA - The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide after the bodies of Christopher and Andrea Holcombe were discovered by their teenager late Wednesday morning in their mansion at 131 Old Gate Road (???).

"`There was a family disagreement,` Sheriff Mike Jolley said. `Alcohol was involved, or so it appears.`

"Christopher Holcombe was a contractor at Fort Benning, Jolley said, and Andrea Holcombe worked at TSYS. Their 5,000-square-foot home and its 5-acre lot had a 2009 tax value of about $1 million, according to records on the Harris County Board of Tax Assessors’ Web site.

"Their 15-year-old child spent Tuesday night with a friend, Jolley said, and the couple was at home with their other children, ages 5 and 1. The details of what happened that night came from the 5-year-old, who heard a gunshot, the sheriff said.

"Jolley said it appears that during the argument the husband got a shotgun from the bedroom `and shot his wife and turned it on himself.` The wife was shot outside on the porch, he said.

"The shooting happened some time Tuesday night, investigators deduced, because the 5-year-old told them it was dark outside at the time.

"No note was discovered, Jolley said, and he didn’t know what the husband and wife were arguing about."

From The Ledger-Enquirer...