Welfare Check Finds Pair Dead

"DICKINSON, ND — Dickinson police are investigating the deaths of a couple as a murder-suicide.

"The bodies of 65-year-old Thomas Bauman and 64-year-old Darlene Bauman were found in their home Friday night.

"Senior Patrol Officer Brian Koskovich says one of the couple's children asked authorities to do a welfare check after the family was unable to get in contact with the couple.

"Koskovich says authorities do not know when the couple died. Autopsies are planned.

"No other details of the deaths were immediately released, but Koskovich says there is no reason to believe anyone besides the couple was involved."

From WDAY.com...

Sheriff Rules Killings Murder/Suicide

"DURANT, MS - Sheriff Willie March has ruled the double shooting from Saturday afternoon a murder-suicide.

"Sheriff March says a 911 call came into his office around 12:30 Saturday afternoon. Deputies found two bodies inside a home located on Highway 12 just outside Durant's city limits.

"Sheriff March says 17-year-old Jesmine Nicole Cherry was shot to death by her boyfriend, 23-year-old Joseph Myrick.

"Myrick later turned the gun on himself, shooting himself in the head."

From WLBT.com...

Two Teens Hurt After Botched Murder/Suicide

"COOPERSTOWN, NY ― A white schoolboy with a rifle chased a black classmate into a police station near the National Baseball Hall of Fame and shot him, then himself, as the lone officer on duty closed in, authorities said.

"The shooter, 16, was hospitalized with a serious wound after shooting himself in the chin, police said Saturday. The other boy, also 16, was hit in the arm. He was treated at a hospital and released.

"The shooting happened Friday afternoon at the small headquarters of the Cooperstown Police Department, across the street from the baseball museum.

"It began when the white teen stepped out of a car with a .22-caliber rifle and began chasing three youths who had been walking through a park near the Hall of Fame Library, village police Chief Diana Nicols said.

"Authorities are investigating whether the shooter was motivated by racial hatred, she said.

"The black teen ran into the lobby the station shares with other municipal offices and took cover behind a partition. The shooter spotted him and fired two bullets, Nicols said.

"One bullet passed through a wall and came within inches of the startled duty officer, James Cox, who leaped to his feet.

"The white teen then shot himself as Cox approached him with his gun drawn and ordered him to drop his rifle, said Nicols, who credited the officer's bravery, and some luck, for halting the attack.

"`If he had been out on patrol, this might have ended very differently,` she said."

From WJZ.com...

Innocent Bystander Victim Of Murder/Suicide

"RICHMOND, VA - An apparent murder-suicide yesterday in Richmond's East End brought to six the number of gunshot deaths this week in Richmond and Henrico County.

"As police closed in on a suspect in yesterday morning's slaying of a Richmond woman, Tarchelle Nicole Daniel, he shot to death an apparently innocent bystander and then fatally shot himself about 5:30 p.m., authorities said.

"Throughout yesterday, police were looking in various neighborhoods for the suspect in Daniel's killing when they spotted him in the area of North 29th, North 30th and S streets, said David M. McCoy, the city's assistant police chief.

"A Richmond officer saw him dash into a yard behind a privacy fence in the 1200 block of North 30th Street, McCoy said.

"`Officers heard a shot, and the suspect ran for about 40 yards,` McCoy said. `He stopped, shot himself and now he's deceased.`

"Police quickly backtracked the suspect's route and found the other body, McCoy said.

"`It is a reasonable belief that [he] was an innocent bystander,` McCoy said. `But we're still investigating.`

"Authorities did not immediately identify either of the bodies."

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch...

"He Seemed Like A Good Guy"

"WAIANAE, HI - The deaths of two Waianae residents at an apartment overlooking Pokai Bay is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide.

"The bodies of Tanya Vagai, 39, and Tusigafa "Kepi" Matua, 33, were found yesterday in the living room of their apartment at Pokai Beach Cabanas.

"In a telephone interview, Vagai's mother, Bernadette Downey, said that in her mind there was domestic violence in the relationship between Vagai and her boyfriend.

"`There was a change in his behavior,` she said.

"Honolulu police Lt. Bill Kato said the victim's mother received a call yesterday morning from her daughter's workplace after her daughter did not show up for work.

"Vagai's mother went to the apartment yesterday, where she discovered her daughter and a man with gunshot wounds in the living room, Kato said.

"Kato said a handgun was recovered.

"He said the woman was seen shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday when she went back to her ground-floor apartment.

"Evelyn Capital, a neighbor, said the couple had not lived in the apartment complex for long.

"`I just met the guy a couple of weeks ago,` she said.

"`He seemed like a good guy.`"

From the Star Bulletin...