On Friday night, a North Carolina police officer failed to show up for his shift. Now, both he and his wife are dead, authorities say.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the deaths as a double homicide, Fayetteville Police Chief Kemberle Braden said at a press conference late Friday night. Tarheel State law enforcement assumed the investigation due to one of the victims having served as a police officer, he said.
Officer Domingo Tavarez-Rodriguez, 53, was supposed to start his work shift at 6 p.m. – after taking several days off. At first, when he didn’t show up, supervisors tried his phone. When he didn’t answer repeated calls, officers went to his house on Vandenberg Drive and gained entrance. The officer and his wife, Yenitza Arroyo Torres, were found shot to death, the police chief said.
“I was notified at about 7 p.m.,” Braden said.
The chief did not elaborate on the deaths – other than mentioning the apparent gunshot wounds – and did not say whether there were any signs of forced entry into the house.
During the press conference, Braden said that Tavarez-Rodriguez was a military veteran and had only recently joined the FPD in 2021.
According to The Fayetteville Observer, the couple were newlyweds, having married in October 2022. Records cited by the paper show that Tavarez-Rodriguez purchased the home sometime in 2017.
“This is so unreal,” one woman identified as a family member of Torres wrote on social media, according to the paper....
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