A 40-year-old man, identified as Cedric Garrett, fatally sh%t his 53-year-old wife, Valtrecia Garrett, before sho%ting himself in an apparent m¥rder-s¥icide in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Friday morning.
According to Vicksburg Police Chief Larry Burns, officers responded to the scene at about 9 a.m. after receiving requests to check on individuals inside a vehicle parked behind Vicksburg Convalescent Home.
Burns said officers secured the area and attempted to resolve the situation peacefully. However, Garrett subsequently sh%t himself and d+ed at the scene. His wife’s body was later discovered inside the vehicle.
The police department’s Criminal Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the d+aths.
In a separate development, reports from the Vicksburg Post archives indicate that Garrett had previously been arrested in September 2002, at the age of 16, and charged in connection with the fatal st@bbing of his 20-year-old brother, Derrick Maxey.
