Three members of the same family were discovered dead this Sunday in two adjoining houses in a village of Creuse, the first elements pointing to a double homicide followed by a suicide, said Bruno Sauvage, the prosecutor of Guéret on Monday.
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According to Bruno Sauvage, the alleged perpetrator is a 64-year-old man who allegedly fired a 12 mm caliber rifle at his 87-year-old mother and his 61-year-old wife before turning the gun on him in Arfeuille-Châtain, small town of 200 inhabitants in eastern Creuse, near Aubusson.
Two writings left in the family home by the alleged perpetrator support this hypothesis, according to the Guéret prosecutor, confirming comments made in the daily La Montagne.
The sixty-year-old couple lived in one house and the octogenarian in the other.
Their bodies were discovered Sunday morning by a nurse who came to provide treatment.
The alleged perpetrator, a farmer, had no criminal record, according to the prosecutor.
No complaint from the gendarmerie or referral to justice for domestic violence had been made before the tragedy.
An investigation for homicide was opened and entrusted to the departmental research brigade of Guéret.
Autopsy results are expected by Wednesday.
