A man was found shot to death inside a home on Woodhill Court in Grapevine, and the man suspected of killing him was later found dead in Euless, in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide. Officers responded to the Woodhill Court address Thursday after a shooting was reported there, discovering the first victim at the scene. Neither man has been publicly identified.
Suspect Fled Before Officers Arrived
According to FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, Grapevine police officers responded to the reported shooting at the Woodhill Court home and found a man dead from a gunshot wound. Investigators said the suspected shooter had already left the home by the time officers got there, leaving the scene before any confrontation with police could occur.
A short time later, law enforcement located the suspected shooter dead in Euless, the station reported. Police described his death as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the same account.
No Threat to the Public, Police Say
Grapevine police characterized the case as an isolated incident posing no ongoing danger to the community, the report noted. Officials have not released the identities of either man, and the circumstances that led to the shooting remain unclear.
Grapevine has seen another apparent murder-suicide involving deaths connected to separate cities: In January 2013, an estranged Euless husband fatally shot his wife at a Grapevine home before killing himself. That case involved a couple and a reported argument; police have not publicly described a relationship or motive in the Woodhill Court shooting. The earlier case is separate from the current investigation.
The deaths are being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide spanning the two North Texas cities. No further details about the men or what preceded the shooting have been made public.
The city says Texas Government Code Chapter 552 provides access to governmental records. Grapevine accepts requests for police records by email, fax, mail or in person, and asks requesters to describe the records sought with enough detail for the city to locate them. The policy offers a route to seek records as the investigation continues, though it does not guarantee that every requested record will be released.
