The couple left dead in a shooting at a nursing home in Dunlap, Tennessee, on Monday have been identified as former residents of Kimball in neighboring Marion County, according to the district attorney’s office.
“The deceased were Kirk and Marcie Bubul,” District Attorney Courtney C. Lynch said in an email. “Both were born in 1943. “
The Kimball Police Department checked a residence where suicide notes were found, Lynch said. The contents of those notes were not disclosed.
Kirk Bubul, 81, husband of Marcie Bubul, also 81, a resident at the nursing home, walked into her room at NHC HealthCare and shot her dead and then he turned the gun on himself, Dunlap Police Chief Randy Phillips said. Kirk Bubul was not a resident at the nursing home but had visited often.
“They’ve been residents of Kimball for at least 20 years, and she’s been at NHC for about three weeks,” Phillips said Wednesday in a phone call.