A woman is dead and her husband is behind bars following an apparent shooting on Windridge Drive in Sequatchie County, Tennessee.
Sequatchie County Sheriff’s deputies found Marcella “Marcy” Renee Ervin, 64, dead inside the home Tuesday after her husband reported to authorities he had shot his wife, Sheriff Bill Phillips said in a news release. The scene on Windridge Drive is about 2 miles north of Dunlap off Smith Mountain Road.
“The husband was taken into custody immediately upon the arrival of the deputies without incident, and the wife was found to be deceased inside the house,” Phillips said.
Keith Edward Kopecky, 63, was booked Tuesday on a charge of criminal homicide, according to officials.
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