by CASEY NORTON
WFAA
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Updated yesterday at 10:57 PM
FORT WORTH — The end of a marriage appears to have led to the end of two lives on Tuesday.
Police think John Hurd, who killed himself in the parking lot of a Fort Worth grocery store, was also responsible for killing his estranged wife just a few minutes earlier.
The suicide happened just before lunchtime at the Woodcreek Village shopping center on the northwest corner of Loop 820 and Bridge Street.
Japriese Platt was found shot and killed in her car less than a mile away. Witnesses watched as her sport utility vehicle crashed into a utility pole on the East Loop 820 service road.
When they ran to help, they found the woman had suffered an obvious gunshot wound.
Family members said Platt's divorce was to have been finalized this week, and the estranged couple had agreed to meet one last time.
"From then on, it didn't go his way," said Kay Platt, the woman's aunt. "And so when she left, that was the last anybody seen her alive, because he drove up beside her and shot her in the head."
The woman's family said the marriage had always been rocky, and Japriese Platt was looking beyond the divorce and a return to nursing school to support her two children.
A woman contacted at Hurd's address in Arlington said she did not want to speak on camera.
E-mail cnorton@wfaa.com
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