DENVER, N.C. — The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office has located the body of the suspect accused of killing a Lincoln County woman.
Deputies were called to Sherwood Lane in Denver, North Carolina, on Monday around 3:25 p.m. for a woman suffering from a gunshot wound.
Debra Ana Jackson, 35, was found shot in the head lying in the front yard of her home. Relatives had been looking for her after Lincoln County Schools called to report her children had not been picked up from school.
She was pronounced dead shortly after.
Officials believed another person was inside the house. A search warrant was obtained and officers checked the house, but nobody was found.
On Tuesday, a search team was in the area and discovered a body in a small pond near the crime scene. Officials later identified the man as 30-year-old Anthony Tyrone Herriott, Jr. of Denver. Officials had been looking for Herriott, who was identified as the suspect in Jackson's death.
When officials recovered Herriott's body, he was still in possession of the handgun believed to have been used in Jackson's shooting and to take his own life, deputies said.
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