Six folks together with three youngsters had been discovered useless in a Tennessee dwelling the place police responded to a taking pictures and arrived to search out the residence ablaze, authorities stated.

A seventh one that had suffered gunshot wounds was discovered alive on the dwelling in Sequatchie on Thursday evening after firefighters extinguished the flames and was hospitalized in Chattanooga, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation stated in a press release.

It gave the impression to be home scenario that become a murder-suicide, Marion County Sheriff Bo Burnette instructed WTVC-TV.

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The particular person authorities assume is accountable is among the many deceased, the bureau stated.

The sheriff later recognized the suspect as Gary Barnett and one of many victims as his estranged spouse, Regina Barnett.

Court paperwork obtained by WTVC present a choose granted Regina Barnett an order of no contact towards Gary Barnett that was nonetheless energetic after she stated he had threatened to shoot her and verbally abused her.

“He also has anywhere from 50 to 60 guns in his room. I am afraid he will get drunk and shoot me,” she wrote in an affidavit in December.

Autopsies on all six folks will likely be carried out in Nashville.