People in Gadsden County are mourning the loss of two well-known people in the community.
Posted: 8:24 PM Oct 25, 2009
Reporter: Candace Sweat/ WCTV
Search For Woman's Body In Chattahoochee 10 PM Friday
Woman's Body Recoevred In Policeman's Back Yard 10 PM Saturday
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People in Gadsden County are mourning the loss of two well-known people in the community.
This just days after the body found in a shallow grave was identified as Antoinette Ross.
Investigators say Ross was shot to death last week by her ex boyfriend Lt. Barry Moore of the Chattahoochee Police Department.
They say Moore placed Ross's body in a shallow grave near his backyard.
Moore shot himself and died on Friday. It was the same day the body was later found.
People in Gadsden County say it's still surreal.
"It just makes me sad that this could happen in our community, and I never really thought anything like this could happen and i just feel sad for the family," says Tammy Hodges.
"To me it's just a horrible tragedy that her life has to end the way it did," says Marsha Walsh.
Lt. Corder of the Gadsden County Sheriff's Department says the investigation is still open and they have not ruled out the possibility that someone else was involved in her death.
Ross had three children and most people we spoke with say those kids are their main concern.
It seemed a lot of people in the area knew both Moore's family and Ross's family, but many did not want to speak on camera.
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An autopsy this weekend confirms the body found in a shallow grave behind a police officer's home was Antoinette Ross.The autopsy results are giving us a better idea of how she died... and it's putting neighbors on edge.
Glenna Parramore thinks about what has taken place in her neighborhood over the past week. She says maybe had she acted sooner, some of it could have been avoided
"I feel that maybe I could have probably prevented her death if I somehow could've helped her in some way or at least going and calling 911."
A medical examiner has confirmed that it is Antoinette Ross's body that was found in a shallow grave. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest. The weapon...a 45 caliber handgun. Neighbors led me into the woods to the spot where they say police found her body.
Parramore says on Thursday, she heard screams coming from the woods..and she'll never forget what they sounded like.
Glenna: "Someone was getting seriously hurt or someone was dying pretty much and that's the kind of scream it was."
Ross was last seen alive Wednesday night when she got into a car with her ex boyfriend Lt. Barry Moore of the Chattahoochee Police Department.
On Friday, officers searched Moore's property and found Ross's body buried in the freshly dug grave.
Authorities are now examining the 45 caliber handgun issued to Lt. Moore by the Chattahoochee Police Department. The say they're not sure if it's the murder weapon, but they're sure Ross was killed by a 45 caliber handgun.
Parramore says she's saddened and concerned that something like this happened so close to where she lives with her three children. Glenna: "It scares me."
Authorities with the Gadsden County Sheriff's Department say the investigation is still ongoing and they haven't ruled out the possibility that another person is involved in Antoinette Ross's death.
During the search for Ross's body on Friday,10-23 Barry Moore shot himself in the chest at his home, and later died.
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Officials have uncovered a female's body on the property of a Chattahoochee Police Officer who allegedly shot himself.
The woman's body was found Friday night in a shallow grave that was allegedly dug behind Lt. Barry Moore's home. The Gadsden County Sheriff's Office says the autopsy results identify the body as Antoinette Ross.
The results show Ross died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Ross was last seen on Wednesday night getting into the car of Lt. Barry Moore.
Although, he was married to another woman, Moore was the father of Ross's youngest child. Before finding her body and while authorities were still searching his property Friday afternoon, Lt. Moore shot himself in the chest and died.
Officers say it wasn't until he took his own life they realized they would likely not find Ross alive. Lt. Moore's neighbors say they heard a woman running through the woods early Thursday morning screaming "help me."
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