Autopsies and a police investigation have determined that a shooting in Lake Edward on Sunday was a murder-suicide.
Police summoned to a parking lot in the 800 block of Baker Road shortly after 2 p.m. found two people with gunshot wounds inside a car, police said. Chiquita Long, 36, died at the scene. Rahkim Goodwin, 20, died later at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
Evidence found at the scene led detectives to believe that Goodwin shot Long before turning his gun on himself, said Officer Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman. Autopsy results Monday confirmed that information.
Goodwin and Long both died of gunshot wounds to the head, said Donna Price, an administrator for the medical examiner's office in Norfolk. Long's death was a homicide and Goodwin's was a suicide, she said.
Long and Goodwin were in a relationship and had one child together, a 6-month-old boy, said Goodwin's uncle, Daniel Goodwin. Long had five other children, her family said. Long and Goodwin both lived in Norfolk.
The shooting occurred in a parking lot shared by a beauty supply store, a nightclub and a convenience store. Long, Rahkim Goodwin and Long's mother drove there together Sunday afternoon, Bernstein said. Long's mother went inside the beauty supply store and found Long and Goodwin shot when she returned, he said.
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