After a woman called 911 to report that she had murdered her daughter and was going to shoot herself, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies discovered the dead bodies of two women in a Mandeville-area home on Tuesday morning, according to a news release.
The call was made at around 8:30 am.
When deputies arrived at the residence in the 700 block of Lane Street where the report came from, they found the victims after detecting what appeared to be a gunshot.
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The bodies have been transferred to the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office for identification and a determination of the cause and manner of death as the sheriff’s office conducts an investigation into what appears to be a murder-suicide.
According to the St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston, the people are Tara Book, the mother, who was 43 years old, and Brittany Buras, the daughter, who was 23 years old.
The coroner will determine the mother and daughter’s causes of death after the autopsies that are scheduled for tomorrow.
The investigation is still going on.
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What is a murder-suicide?
A murder-suicide is when someone kills another person either before or at the same time as killing themselves. Murder and suicide can combine in a number of ways:
– Murder committed by a person who has homicidal thoughts and commits suicide
– Murder that involves suicide, whether a suicide bombing or a vehicle crash with the culprit and those inside of it
– Murder of a police officer or bystander as the officer commits suicide
– Suicide after murder to avoid prosecution
– Suicide following homicide as a type of guilt-driven self-punishment
– Before or after murder by proxy, suicide
– Suicide following or occurring during a homicide caused by another
– Murder that knowingly merits the death penalty
– Joint suicide when two people kill each other with their cooperation before committing suicide themselves
