Update: Names Released of the Three Dead in Murder-Suicide at Tallassee Walmart
UPDATE: Police have now released the names of the three people involved in the apparent murder-suicide outside the Walmart store in Tallassee.
Police say when they arrived around 10:15 this morning, they found two cars that had hit each other near the garden center. Officers found 65-year-old Harold Miller lying in the parking lot dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officers then found the bodies of 58-year-old Tresea Miller and 75-year-old Barbara Buttles inside one of the cars. Police say both of the women were victims of multiple gunshot wounds.
Police say their preliminary investigation shows there was a history of domestic incidents between the family members and are considering the case to be a murder/suicide. They have not yet described the family relationship of the three people involved.
Police Chief Matt Higgins says cameras in the Walmart parking lot will be reviewed leading up to the shooting.
“We have numerous witnesses but we can’t release any information during the investigation. We’ll question all the witnesses,” says Higgins.
Ricky Aldridge, a nearby resident on Laurel Street heard the shots while he was at home.
“I was in my backyard and I heard a crash so I figured that somebody had wrecked at Walmart because it has been a lot of wrecks there so I got on my lawnmower and rode over there,” says Aldridge.
An Order of Protection was filed by Tresea Miller against Harold Miller just this morning.
Order of Protection Against Harold Miller
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