Man killed himself and his wife, Arlington police believe

A man may have killed his wife and then himself in an Arlington home early Monday morning, Arlington police said.

At 2:34 a.m., Arlington police responded to a call that someone might be dead at a house in the 5200 block of Livermore Drive, according to a press release from Arlington police. Police obtained a search warrant when they could not reach anyone inside the house.

When they got inside, officers found a man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and a dead woman.

The man was identified as 66-year-old Edward Leon Rogers Jr. by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office Monday night.

Police believe the two were married, but had not confirmed the woman’s identity as of Monday night.

The cause of the woman’s death is not yet known.

Fort Worth police also received a report shortly after 2 a.m. Monday in which a caller said a friend had confessed to killing his wife in Arlington. Fort Worth police notified Arlington investigators about the call.

It was the second murder-suicide investigation reported in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in less than 24 hours. Dallas police found Wayne Thigpen, 73, and Jamie Thigpen, 72, dead from gunshot wounds on Sunday night. The couple were married, according to police.

This story was originally published July 29, 2019 at 5:12 PM.