LITTLE ROCK — Calhoun County Coroner Johnnie Davis said a Facebook post may have started an argument that led to a murder and suicide early Saturday.
Davis said authorities found Rhonda Jean Tacker, 40, of Camden, dead, with at least four gunshot wounds to her chest and torso, inside the home at 3025 Calhoun County Road 182 in Hampton.
Tacker’s ex-husband, Dennis Marshall Queen, 53, who rented the home, was also found with one gunshot wound to the head, Davis said.
A 9mm pistol was found inside the home, Davis said.
Shortly before midnight Friday, Davis said, Tacker called her ex-husband’s neighbor, who was the owner of Queen’s home, to let him know she was coming over to get Queen to remove something about her on Facebook. Davis said he didn’t know details about what was posted on the social-media website.
“[Queen] told her he would take it off if she’d come to see him that night,” Davis said.
On Saturday, Davis said the neighbor went over to the house to let Tacker know she left her car lights on and “saw a big puddle of blood coming out of the door” of the home.
Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office deputies and the coroner arrived around noon to discover all the doors were bolted.
Once inside, they found the bodies lying at the door, Davis said.
The couple had a “volatile relationship” and had been separated several times before their divorce about six months ago, Davis said he was told.
The bodies were sent to the state Crime Laboratory for autopsies.
Davis said this is the first homicide in Calhoun County in 2012.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 01/23/2012