SHADY COVE, Ore. -- Dick Traugh is trying to hold it together.
Tuesday morning, the man learned his grandson -- 36-year-old Dewayne Upton -- was dead in what police are calling a murder-suicide.
Police responded to shots fired at a home near Highway 62 around 2:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found 30-year-old Makiala Lynn Upton shot. Police say the woman was dead at the scene.
At that time, police believed the shooter was on the loose and deputies began searching for the man.
Hours after the initial call, police found Upton's body near the Rogue River. Police say there was a hand gun nearby.
Before police found Upton's body, Traugh said his grandson had called him.
"He said he killed his wife and he was going to hurt himself," Traugh said, adding that Upton was emotional. "...He hated that he did it."
Traugh said he never expected this from his grandson.
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