Two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, on Tuesday at a home where authorities found a toddler and infant left alone but alive.
“It was a murder-suicide from the preliminary investigation,” Marion County Sheriff Ronnie “Bo” Burnett said Tuesday by phone. “It was in South Pittsburg in the Richard City community.”
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Burnett said his office, along with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, is assisting South Pittsburg police and a District Attorney’s Office investigator. Authorities were notified of the discovery around 6 a.m. CST Tuesday, according to dispatchers.
A family member found the man and woman, South Pittsburg Police Chief Wayne Jordan said Tuesday in a phone interview.