Two dead in Chilhowie in what sheriff called murder-suicide

Smyth County Sheriff Chip Shuler said two people are dead following a weekend shooting that he called a murder-suicide.

Investigators were called to a home in the 400 block of Red Stone Road in Chilhowie on Saturday and found a male and female resident dead in a bedroom.

The names of the victims were not released and their bodies have been sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Roanoke for autopsies.

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