NORFOLK, Va. (NPD) – Around 7:20 Thursday evening, dispatchers received a call for police to check on the well-being at a residence located in the 2600 block of Colonial Avenue. When officers arrived on scene, they located a woman and a man with apparent gunshot wounds.
Medics pronounced the woman and man dead at the scene.
The two have been identified as Amarea Ware, 23, of Norfolk, and Rexford B. Tomlinson, 26, of Norfolk.
Detectives are investigating this incident as a murder-suicide and are not looking for suspects. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will make the final determination for the manner and cause of death when the investigation is complete.
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