It is most likely a feminicide followed by a suicide.
A woman and a man, both aged 60, were found dead by bullets in Bossay-sur-Claise (Indre-et-Loire), the Tours prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
On Friday morning, gendarmes went to the home of a couple residing in this town of 800 inhabitants, "their respective employers being concerned about their absence", said the public prosecutor of Tours Grégoire Dulin in a press release.
In the house, they discovered "in the basement the lifeless bodies of a woman who had been hit by a shot in the right flank and a man with a bullet wound in the head".
Rifle shots
“According to the first elements of the investigation, which will have to be confirmed, the 60-year-old man may have shot his companion, aged the same age, with a gun as she was about to go to her place of work around 5.40 a.m.
“He would then have killed himself a few minutes later in a room located in the basement of the dwelling”, according to the prosecutor, specifying that the findings continued on Saturday and that numerous hearings were in progress to “confirm the first elements collected.
Investigation opened in Tours
A judicial investigation of the head of spousal homicide has been opened by the Tours prosecutor's office and the continuation of the investigations is entrusted to the Research Brigade (BR) of the Loches gendarmerie.
The main suspect had no criminal record.
The autopsies will take place on Monday at the Tours forensic institute.
What do we know about the triple homicide that occurred near Chalon-sur-Saône?
A woman stabbed to death by her companion in western Lyon
Miscellaneous facts
Femicide
Police
Homicide
Suicide