Richland, AR: Richland man kills wife, turns gun on himself

Woman's 11-year-old son found bodies

By Stephen Largen
slargen@monroe.gannett.com

A Start man apparently shot and killed his wife and then fatally shot himself Tuesday afternoon, according to the Richland Parish Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff Charles McDonald said Christopher Jarmon, 32, and Tracy Jarmon, 36, were found dead of shotgun wounds in the bathroom of their home at 419 Crew Lake Loop by Tracy Jarmon's 11-year-old son.

"The boy's mother had been shot one time in the back with a 20-gauge shotgun," McDonald said.

"It appears that (Christopher Jarmon) put the shotgun either in his mouth or under his chin and shot himself."

Both bodies have been sent to Little Rock, Ark., for autopsies.

"It appears to be just a domestic dispute gone horribly wrong," McDonald said.

The couple had been married less than a year.

McDonald said the Sheriff's Office had no record of any previous domestic disputes at the couple's home before Tuesday.

But McDonald said friends and relatives of the Jarmons have told investigators the couple had been having serious arguments in the days before the apparent murder-suicide.

McDonald said the purpose of the autopsies is "to confirm what we think we already know."

He said Tracy Jarmon's murder is the first homicide the Sheriff's Office has worked this year.