MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office says the death of a rural Mountain Home woman that occurred on Sunday has been ruled a suicide.

The sheriff’s office says they received a report that a woman, later identified as 33-year-old Ashley Mooney, had shot herself with a handgun while in a vehicle on Buford Rd. around 5:20 pm on Sunday. The sheriff says her husband was in the vehicle with her when the incident occurred.


The victim was transported by ambulance to Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home with critical injuries, and then to a Springfield-area hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The sheriff says evidence collected at the scene was consistent with a suicide, and no foul play is suspected. Mooney’s body is being taken to the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s Office in Little Rock for autopsy to determine cause and manner of death.