ATHENS, W.Va. (AP) - The Mercer County Sheriff's Department says the fatal shootings of a couple are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
Media outlets report that the sheriff's department identified the couple as 55-year-old Frederick Tawney and his wife, 48-year-old Laura Tawney.
The sheriff's department says Laura Tawney called Mercer County 911 on Monday evening and told dispatchers that her husband was pointing a gun at her. The phone line went dead, and then Frederick Tawney called 911 and said he had killed his wife and planned to kill himself.
Deputies found the couple's bodies and a shotgun at their home outside Athens.