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Nancy Cundiff inched slowly along the sidewalk, cupping her hands to her mouth, tears gathering in her eyes.

“That’s my son,” she said, quivering outside of a one-story brick house at the end of a cul-de-sac. “I can’t believe he’s gone.”

It was dark, about 8:30 p.m. on Friday, and the lights were on at the house in the 4400 block of Holmes Street Northeast. Inside, police and someone from the medical examiner’s office were processing evidence from a double homicide.

About eight hours earlier, a man and woman shot each other to death in what police described as an incident that was “domestic in nature.”

Police arrived to the house at 12:40 p.m. and discovered Melissa Lynn Cook, 43, and Bobby Ray Cundiff, 40, each with gunshot wounds. Cook died at the scene. Cundiff was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died.

Police found a handgun near Cook’s body and another handgun near Cundiff.

Police said no one else was inside the house at the time of the incident, and they do not believe at this time that anyone else was involved.

Police spokesman Scott Leamon said Cundiff called police to report the shooting.