CONWAY, AR. (THECOUNT) — Madison Dodd and Shelby Dodd have been identified as the couple found dead in a Conway residence on Tuesday, according to reports.
The Dodds, both 22, were found dead of an apparent murder-suicide at a home on Club Lane, in Conway, AR, late Tuesday morning, say Conway Police.
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Officials determined the deaths were as of a result of a murder-suicide.
Authorities say evidence points to Madison Dodd shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself.
Acting on a call from a friend of Shelby Dodd’s, Police initially showed up at the residence at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday morning. The friend told officers the couple was in the middle of a break-up and she was concerned for Shelby’s welfare, reports Fox16.
After making several failed attempts to contact Madison and Shelby, at the request of a family member, officers entered the house through an unlocked door around 3 p.m. Everything seemed to be in place in the front of the house but during a search of the back bedroom they found the couple dead.
The bodies have been sent to the state crime lab for autopsies.
The deaths remain under investigation.
Geo quick facts: Conway is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Faulkner County, located in the state’s most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area, Central Arkansas. Conway is unusual in that the majority of its residents do not commute out of the city to work – Wikipedia.