TOBACCOVILLE --
A Tobaccoville couple is dead and their 7-year-old daughter is in the custody of family members following a murder-suicide case that began in Forsyth County and ended in Raleigh.
Officers went to the house in the 3400 block of Spainhour Mill Road about 11 p.m. Thursday after a report of a shooting, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
Inside the house they found Pamela Burgess Hurlocker, 42, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Her husband, Alan Claude Hurlocker, 49, and the couple’s 7-year-old daughter were not at home. Authorities notified other law-enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for his car.
Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue said that at 12:30 a.m. Friday, the Raleigh police received a request for assistance from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office to check to see if a certain vehicle was located at 1516 Basewood Drive.
A Raleigh police officer arrived at the residence at approximately the same time as the vehicle in question. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as Alan Hurlocker, and his daughter got out of the car.
“The officer engaged in a brief verbal exchange with Hurlocker while maintaining a distance between himself and the two subjects,” Sughrue said in a statement. “Within moments, the juvenile went into the residence, and the driver of the vehicle produced a handgun and shot himself.”
He was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body was transported to the medical examiner for autopsy.
The girl was not harmed during the incident and did not witness the suicide, authorities said.
Chief Deputy Brad Stanley said Alan Hurlocker is a “person of interest” in his wife’s death but investigators have not yet confirmed that he was the one who shot her.
“I don’t want to say that yet,” Stanley said.
He said he didn’t know if the girl witnessed the shooting of her mother.
“It’s a sad situation,” Stanley said. “This 7-year-old girl lost both parents in a matter of hours.”
He said there was no record of the sheriff’s department ever going to the house on domestic calls in the past.
There’s no court record of Pamela Hurlocker taking out a protective order against her husband. But she did take out a no-stalking protective order on June 28 against a Winston-Salem woman named Ann Moore.
In the complaint, Pamela Hurlocker said Moore had come to her house June 25 and claimed that her husband had been at Hurlocker’s house. She denied that Moore’s husband had been at her house.
She said in the complaint that Moore had previously come to her workplace. Pamela Hurlocker denied in the complaint that she was having an affair with Moore’s husband.
An emergency protective order was granted, but Judge William Graham of Forsyth District Court denied a more permanent protective order after a hearing. Attorneys for both Hurlocker and Moore attended.
Stanley said detectives are still investigating and don’t know if the dispute between Hurlocker and Moore had anything to do with Hurlocker’s death.
Moore could not be reached for comment. Her attorney, Carl Parrish, did not return a message seeking comment Friday.
Stanley said Pamela Hurlocker also had two other children with two other men. According to court records, she had filed for child support against the father of her 18-year-old son. She was scheduled to appear in court this past Tuesday on the issue. It’s not clear from court records what happened at the hearing.
The couple lived in a small brick house on a stretch of Spainhour Mill Road just off U.S. 52 where newer developments are nestled amid rolling farmland. On Friday, a small pink bicycle was parked at the end of the driveway.
Neighbor David Alderman told Fox 8, the Winston-Salem Journal’s newsgathering partner, that Spainhour Mill Road is typically a very quiet neighborhood.
“It’s pretty shocking,” Alderman said. “I didn’t know the people very well, but we’d throw up our hands and wave when we’d go by.”
The only time Alderman saw the Hurlockers is when their daughter was out playing in the yard.
“The gentleman or the lady would be on the front porch watching,” Alderman said. “They seemed like quiet people to me.”
Pamela Hurlocker’s body has been taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for autopsy. Her death has been ruled a homicide.
Her death marks the second homicide in the county this year, and in both cases the victims are women.
Last month, the body of Kendra Renee Burnette, 25, was found dumped along a rural stretch of Styers Ferry Road near the Yadkin River.
Eric Darnell Boone, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Burnette’s death. Burnette had earlier taken out a protective order against Boone.
Authorities said Burnette and Boone had started a relationship not long after he was released from federal prison this spring after serving four years for firearms violations.
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