“There appeared to have been a struggle from the indication of what we saw,” Newman said.

Cumbow said it’s not yet known whether force was used to enter the home. Gunshot exits were found in two different places in the home, he said.

The bodies were taken Wednesday morning to the state medical examiner’s office in Roanoke for autopsies.

Newman said the couple lived at the home for no more than a year.

“It’s a pretty quiet community,” Newman said. “I know a lot of people that live in that area. It is a tragedy just to see something like that to happen in a reasonably quiet neighborhood.”

Jerry Hargrove worked at Utility Trailer in Glade Spring and was “very well thought of over there,” Newman said. When the man didn’t show up for work, co-workers became concerned, said Newman, who spoke to the facility’s plant manager.

“All of us here at Utility Trailer Glade Spring are saddened by the loss of one of our valued team members,” the plant’s manager, Sam Cassell, said in an email to the Bristol Herald Courier.

Cassell said Hargrove was a dedicated co-worker, which showed in his work.