ROSSVILLE – When Robyn Murray heard the noise outside her home Tuesday night, she thought a neighbor was knocking on her door.
But when she peeked outside, she saw the source of the commotion. A stream of squad cars, ambulances and forensic vans, parked on her street. To her left, outside her neighbor’s house on Orchard Avenue, Murray found a collection of officers.
Though the officers blocked off the scene as they investigated, Murray could watch from the street. When she looked down the hill, where the ground sloped to the entrance of the home, she saw the front door was open. And through the front door, she saw her neighbor, 54-year-old Torry Lynn Creek, in the living room, on the floor, surrounded by paramedics.
Next to those paramedics, standing, holding onto another woman, Murray saw Creek’s wife. She was crying.
“You could hear the heartbreak,” Murray said.