Married couple dead in suspected murder-suicide in Gainesville

Police statement links deaths to domestic violence
The man and woman were found dead at a house on Deerwood Trace, Gainesville police said.

The man and woman were found dead at a house on Deerwood Trace, Gainesville police said.

Two people investigators believe to be a married couple were found dead in a car in Gainesville on Thursday morning in a suspected murder-suicide, officials said.

Gainesville police identified the couple as 55-year-old Rosa Ojeda Contreras and 60-year-old Zenaido Alejo. Investigators believe Alejo first shot Contreras, then himself, police said. Their bodies were found in a car in a cul-de-sac at the end of Deerwood Trace in the Willow Ridge development.

Alejo and Contreras lived in Gainesville and have adult children, according to police.

“We would like to remind the public that our community has an abundance of resources for those impacted by domestic violence,” police said in a statement, followed by a link to the Gateway Domestic Violence Center.

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