Kid Finds Mom And Dad Dead

" ATHENS, GA - Police have identified the couple who died in a murder suicide Friday as Harry and Phyllis Marable.

"The couple, who lived at 130 Chardonay St. with their son, died sometime Friday afternoon of gunshot wounds.

"Their son — who is 9 or 10 years old, according to police — discovered his parents' bodies around 6 p.m. in a bedroom of their home, which is in north Clarke County between Nowhere Road and Freeman Drive. The boy did not see his parents death, said Capt. Clarence Holeman, commanding officer of Centralized Criminal Investigations for the Athens-Clarke Police Department.

"Police are certain that the deaths were a murder suicide, and an autopsy today turned up nothing unexpected, Holeman said.

"Friday was a holiday for students in the Clarke County School District, so the child was home, but not in the room when his parents died.

"`We know he was home, but he had gone out into the neighborhood,` Holeman said.

"Police have responded to domestic calls involving the couple in the past, Holeman said. While he would not say whether the husband or wife was the shooter, the called the violence `definitely domestic.`"

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