Staff, wire reports

Mississippi Clarion Ledger

Three people are dead in what authorities are calling a double murder-suicide.

Brookhaven Police Chief Kenneth Collins told The Brookhaven Daily Leader three people — two men and one woman — died at a home in Brookhaven after a shooting that occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

The incident was “definitely domestic," Collins said.

Capt. Clint Earls with the Brookhaven Police Department identified the victims Monday as J.T. Miller, 61, of Raleigh, and his daughter, 19-year-old Taylor Kelly of 228 Wood St. Kelly’s husband, 29-year-old Byron Kelly, of the same address, appears to have taken his own life after shooting to death his wife and father-in-law, Earls told the Daily Leader.

“It appears the first victim was coming to pick his daughter up,” Earls said Monday. “Whenever he got there, he made it to the front door, attempted to go inside and inform his daughter he was there, that’s when the first shot rang out.”

Byron Kelley, authorities said, died of "one self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.”

Neighbor Woodrow Scott told the Daily Leader he heard gunshots before a woman ran down the street, screaming, "Call the police. Call the police. He shot my husband in the face.’”

Earls said Miller fell back onto the front porch after being shot and died.

Miller’s wife, who had been waiting in the pickup, ran for help, he said.

Authorities told the Daily Leader they found the body of Taylor Kelly just inside the door and Byron Kelly nearby. He was holding a handgun.

Lincoln County Coroner Clay McMorris said the bodies will be sent to the state medical examiner’s office in Jackson for autopsies.