JEFFERSON COUNTY - The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting death of a couple in their bed, in what an officer says is an apparent murder-suicide.
Investigators say the man is identified as 34 year old Martin Alston and his wife was 32 year old Jennifer Alston.
Dr. Tommy Brown is conducting an autopsy. An Officer says the shooting is still under investigation.
A child found the bodies.
Major Jimmy Singletary told KFDM News deputies responded to a 911 call at about 10 p.m. Friday in the 100 block of North 5th Avenue off Twin City Highway in Central Gardens. Singletary says an 8-year-old found the bodies of the man and woman in the bed.
Investigators say they'd been shot. An autopsy has been ordered but the shootings appear to be a murder-suicide, according to Singletary.
The Sheriff's Office isn't releasing the names of the man and woman until relatives are notified.
A woman who says she is a family member told us the female who died was 8 months pregnant.
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