Motive Unknown In Death Of Couple

"CENTREVILLE, VA - Fairfax County police responded Monday afternoon for a welfare check in the 6000 block of Raina Drive and found a Centreville couple dead inside their London Commons home — both with apparent gunshot wounds to the upper body. Police arrived, April 12, around 2:55 p.m., and located the bodies of 60-year-old Wayne Woodyard, and 52-year-old Jill Woodyard.

"According to police, the incident appears domestic in nature. `Preliminary indications suggest that Mr. Woodyard shot Mrs. Woodyard and then committed suicide,` said police spokesman Bud Walker. `We don’t know what the motive was, at this time. We may never know.`

"He said police were asked to check on the couple’s welfare by a member of the family, but he had no specific information about the family. He also didn’t know what Wayne Woodyard did for a living and did not disclose exactly where in the home the bodies were found.

"The medical examiner is doing an autopsy on them, and Walker said, `there was contact` with one of the victims and someone else, the day before the tragedy, so police don’t believe they were deceased `for long` before they were discovered."

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