Coroner says murder-suicide suspected in shooting deaths

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — A coroner says the deaths of a central Kentucky couple are the result of an apparent murder-suicide.

Scott County Coroner John Goble told media that it appears 40-year-old Fred Scott Caldwell fatally shot his wife, 42-year-old Rebecca Caldwell, before turning the gun on himself. Goble said the shooting stemmed from domestic violence issues.

The couple died Saturday at their home in Georgetown.

Goble told the Lexington Herald-Leader that Fred Caldwell’s father, mother, sister and brother-in-law died in a vehicle crash in 2012 in Knox County on Christmas eve.

A newspaper story says the crash occurred after his parents, who lived in Harlan County, picked up his sister and brother-in-law at the airport.