CHARLOTTE
A couple is dead and their two adult sons severely wounded in what authorities say was a domestic violence-related shooting early Sunday at a Lake Norman-area home, according to police and neighbors.
Iredell County investigators said they believe the shooter is one of the dead, The Charlotte Observer reported.
Property records and neighbors indicate the residents are Douglas Alan Thomas Sr., his wife, Linda Thomas, and sons Douglas Alan Thomas Jr. and Christian Thomas. Neighbors said the sons were in their 20s.
By press time, Iredell County investigators had not officially released the names of the victims or offered any suspects or possible motives in the shootings.
The house at 130 Peninsula Drive is in the Norman Shores neighborhood just outside the Mooresville city limits.
A man who said he was Christian Thomas' brother-in-law but declined to give his name said the two sons survived but were in critical condition following surgery at Carolinas Medical Center. They were to be sedated through Sunday night, he said.
Authorities were called to the home around 8 a.m. Sunday by someone's mobile phone, investigators with the Iredell County Sheriff's Department said. They found two people dead and two more with serious gunshot wounds.
Alina Adams, who lives next door, said she sometimes spoke with Linda Thomas but rarely spoke to the husband, Douglas Thomas Sr.
"He was almost unnaturally quiet," she said. But she and other neighbors also said he wasn't unfriendly, either.
Kim Sargoni, who's lived in the neighborhood for about 14 years, said the family was "very quiet," and didn't usually participate in neighborhood activities, such as giving out Halloween candy.
"They very much kept to themselves," she said.
She said that around 9 a.m. Sunday she saw the neighborhood taped off and flooded with emergency vehicles. She heard there had been a shooting, but police told her very quickly that they weren't searching for the shooter.
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