Overview
- Police say John Ezzell, 62, called 911 around 7 p.m. to report his wife had terminal cancer and that he planned to shoot her before taking his own life.
- Responding officers found John and Christine Ezzell, both 62, inside their Kate Downing Road home with apparent gunshot wounds and pronounced them dead at the scene.
- A firearm was recovered in the residence, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct autopsies.
- The caller told dispatchers he would leave the door unlocked for first responders, according to police.
- Kate Downing Road was temporarily closed between Spaulding Street and Pratt Road during a large police response and later reopened, with authorities describing the case as isolated with no public threat.