PALM COAST, FL. (THECOUNT) — Alexis Marie Somerford has been identified as the suspected suicide victim found by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies 9 p.m. Saturday night.
Somerford, 27, was located by first responders in a back bedroom of her home at 85 Farragut Drive in Palm Coast with a gunshot to the head apparently from a nearby rifle.
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Rumors started falsely making the rounds on social media claiming that the incident had been a home invasion and that the victim was an “older man.”
The victim is said to be the mother of four young children.
Somerford had four children with her husband Kristopher, 28–three girls and a boy, ages 1, 4, 5 and 6. The boy is the 5 year old. The Department of Children and Families was notified of the incident and responded to the scene as ” Kristopher was later placed under the Baker Act for suicidal statements he made on scene and transported to Halifax Hospital,” according to FlaggerLive.
Somerford was studying early childhood education at Ashford University. She called her 1 year old her “superhero” for having weathered serious challenges of her own over the past year.
The death remains under investigation.
Geo quick facts: Palm Coast is a city in Flagler County, Florida. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 75,180, more than twice the 32,832 counted in 2000. The population was estimated to be 80,600 in 2014. It is the most populous city in Flagler County – Wikipedia.