October 11, 2010|By Eric Gillard, egillard@dailypress.com | 247-4879
SURRY — A man and women were found dead Saturday afternoon after a dispute that became a murder-suicide.
According to the Surry County Sheriff's Office, dispatch received a call reporting shots fired at 3:15 p.m.
After police were called to a residence at the Pooles Mobile Home Park in the 8600 block of Colonial Trail East, officials found Floyd Jones and his wife, Daisy, shot to death, said Senior Deputy Michael Bailey.
Bailey said that the husband and wife got into an incident and Floyd Jones fatally shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself.
A domestic issue was at the root of the fatal incident, Bailey said. Floyd Jones left no notes explaining his motives behind the shooting, Bailey added.
This was the first time that authorities were called to the Jones' residence, Bailey said.
The trailer park where the incident happened is about five miles south of Chippokes Plantation State Park.
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