Officials: Suicide Victim May Have Killed Two in Shreveport

MARSHALL (Staff/AP) — Harrison County deputies were shocked Sunday when a the subject of a welfare check committed suicide in front of them. Then they connected him to a double homicide that happened in Shreveport just hours earlier. More than a dozen Shreveport officers responded to the original crime scene around 6 a.m. Sunday, where they found a man and a woman shot to death. Harrison County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Jay Webb says both Harrison County investigators and Shreveport police are investigating the case.

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office identified the suicide victim as 48-year-old Jonathan Manning. Shreveport police Cpl. Marcus Hines says deputies believe Manning may have shot two people in Shreveport city early Sunday morning. The Caddo Parish coroner’s office has identified the pair, whose bodies were discovered at a home west of Interstate 220, as 54-year-old Eric Cox and 39-year-old Tara Wren. Wren’s body was found on the front lawn. Cox was found dead in the house. Hines says authorities believe Wren may have been in a relationship with Manning.