A Yadkin County man shot his live-in girlfriend and then took his own life, Sheriff Mike Cain of Yadkin County said yesterday.
The couple had been dead about two days when a sheriff's deputy found their bodies yesterday afternoon at their house at 5104 Windsor Road in the Windsor's Crossroads community in the southwestern part of the county. A scribbled suicide note read, "She was an accident," Cain said. The man's body was found near the front door, and the woman's body was found in the "far end of the house," he said.
Both had been shot with a 12-gauge shotgun.
Cain did not release the victims' names because family members were still being notified. No one else was involved in the shootings.
The couple had been dating about a month, Cain said, and the woman had moved into the house about a week ago. The man, who was in his mid-50s, was a longtime resident of Yadkin County. The woman was from Iredell County.
A friend of the man first came to check on him on Wednesday and found a note on the front door that said: "Be back tomorrow." He returned yesterday, and when he still got no answer he called 911 from a nearby store.
Owen Strickland, a neighbor, said he talked to the man a few times, but did not know his name. It is not clear how long the man had lived in the white, one-story rental house.
Cain said that the bodies were taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem for autopsies.
■ John Hinton can be reached at 727-7302 or at jhinton@wsjournal.com.
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