According to Richman County Coronor Mark Bowen, Sunday’s fatal shooting of a North Myrtle Beach woman at an Augusta hotel was a murder-suicide.
North Myrtle Beach resident 33-year-old Nancy Sigrit Thompson was killed by her husband and died at 11:07 p.m. Sunday.
Her husband, Andrew Thompson also of North Myrtle Beach, then turned the gun on himself. Andrew Thompson died Wednesday at Augusta University Medical Center from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The incident has been officially ruled a murder-suicide according to officials.
The North Myrtle Beach couple were visiting Augusta Georgia when the incident occurred.
According to VPC.org:
Murder-suicides are a shockingly common form of gun violence in the United States — an estimated 11 such incidents each week. VPC research has found that more than 1,200 Americans die in murder-suicides each year. Nine out of 10 murder-suicides involve a gun. In nearly two-thirds of all murder-suicides, an intimate partner of the shooter is among the victims.
No comprehensive national database or tracking system exists to systematically document the toll in death and injury of murder-suicides in the United States. In order to more fully understand the human costs of these incidents, the VPC began collecting and analyzing news reports of murder-suicides, resulting in a series of studies titled American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. The VPC has published seven editions of this study.