SEBASTIAN, Fla. — Sebastian police are looking for answers after a woman was killed in murder-suicide over the weekend.
The Sebastian Police Department said officers responded to a home in the 1000 block of Barber Street at approximately 10 p.m. on Dec. 7 to conduct a next-of-kin death notification for another agency.
Officers were unable to make contact a woman who lived there, Patricia Rockwell-Kuhner, 64. However, her car was parked at the home.
Inside, police found Rockwell-Kuhner's body on the floor, along with "signs of blood."
Sebastian police said Rockwell-Kuhner was the victim of a homicide, and the person who killed her, Michael Rockwell, 48, is also dead. Police have determined this to be a murder-suicide.
"This conclusion marks the culmination of careful investigative work, and we extend our deepest condolences to the Rockwell-Kuhner family during this incredibly difficult time," the Sebastian Police Department said in a written news release on Tuesday.
