The Oak Ridge Police Department on Sunday morning, April 22, 2018, investigates a death behind National Fitness Center in central Oak Ridge. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The Oak Ridge Police Department has determined that the death of a female between two businesses in central Oak Ridge was a suicide.
Police responded to the parking lot of Home Depot at 175 Laboratory Road to conduct a welfare check on a person at 9:12 a.m. Sunday.
When officers arrived, they found Leah Michelle Ray, 49, of Oak Ridge, had died in a grassy area between Home Depot and the National Fitness Center, a press release said.
The Oak Ridge Police Department Criminal Investigations Division and Oak Ridge Fire Department were called to the scene to help. So was the Knox County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Parts of the Home Depot and National Fitness Center parking lots were closed off during the investigation, the press release said.
The scene was cleared shortly after 12 p.m.
Investigators hadn’t been able to say Sunday morning if the death was a homicide or suicide, but the ORPD later said they had determined the cause of death to be from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No more information will be released at this time, the press release said.
See previous story here.
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