DYERSBURG, TN. (THECOUNT) — Latosha Fields and Sedrick Moses have been identified as the two victims in an apparent murder-suicide in Dyersburg, Tennessee on Saturday morning.
Fields, 39, was found suffering from at least one gunshot injury Saturday morning inside a Dyersburg residence.
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Officials say they responded to a call of shots fired in the 600 block of Lake Road early Saturday morning.
When officers arrived they discovered Fields injured. She was transported to an area hospital where she was later pronounced dead of gunshot injuries.
Two young children, ages 14 and 10, were found inside the apartment. They were said to be unharmed during the double-deadly incident.
Officers later responded to another call of shots fired nearby the original shooting scene in the 200 block of St. Joseph Avenue. When officers arrived at that scene, Moses, 41, was found suffering from a fatal gunshot injury.
Moses was later identified as the boyfriend of Fields.
Investigators say there was a domestic dispute between the two, which turned violent when the man got a gun and shot the woman, killing her. He then fled the scene, reports wmcactionnews5.
Police say the pair lived together and shared children.
Friends and family members took to Facebook to remember Fields:
The case remains under investigation.
Geo quick facts: Dyersburg is a city and the county seat of Dyer County, Tennessee, in the United States. It is located in northwest Tennessee, 79 miles northeast of Memphis on the Forked Deer River. The population was 17,145 at the 2010 census. Tennessee is a landlocked state in the U.S. South. Its capital, centrally located Nashville, is the heart of the country-music scene, with the long-running Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and a legendary stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls. Memphis, in the far southwest, is the home of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, rock-and-roll pioneering Sun Studio and the blues clubs of Beale Street. – Wikipedia.