ROGERS -- Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two people as a murder-suicide, according to Keith Foster, spokesman for the department.
The man and woman were shot at the Midway Mobile Home Park. Police were called at 9:54 p.m. Friday for a report of shots fired, Foster said.
Police found a man and woman with gunshot wounds, Foster said.
The man was taken to Mercy Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, and the woman was taken to Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, where she died later, according to Foster.
Police haven't released the names of either, pending notification of next of kin. Police also haven't commented on the relationship between the man and woman.
Foster said the two were the only people in the home at the time of the incident.
Detectives believe the man shot the woman with a handgun and then himself with the same gun, Foster said.
"It's still early on in the investigation," Foster said. "There's still a lot of questions we are trying to answer right now.
Police searched the home Saturday morning. Police found the handgun, according to Foster.
Rodney Leland lives at 1305 E. New Hope Road which is a short distance from the mobile home park.
Leland said he didn't hear any gunshots, but did hear the sirens.
"It was a peaceful cool night and then the cops began pulling up," Leland said.
Leland said a few police cars parked in his yard and officers ran to the mobile home park. Leland said more than a dozen officers were at the scene and they closed New Hope Road.
Leland said he heard the helicopter and saw the ambulance leaving the scene.
Leland said he never met the man or woman that lived in the trailer.
Courtney Howell lives in trailer No. 4 at the mobile home park. "I heard nothing but sirens," Howell said. "I did not hear any gunshots."
Foster said the bodies have been sent the the Arkansas Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for autopsies.
Rogers police investigated another murder at the mobile home park in 2011.
Brent Test, 25, was found unconscious May 20, 2011, in one of the trailers in the park.
Darin Etherton later admitted in September 2012 to shooting Test twice in the head. Etherton was sentenced to 30 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.
NW News on 07/26/2015