A man shot and killed his live-in girlfriend, then killed himself in a murder-suicide early Tuesday morning inside a Regency apartment, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Officers were dispatched to the Kendall Lake Apartments on Kendall Town Boulevard just after 1 a.m.
Police said Stephen Harford, 44, shot Nichelle Simpson, 45, multiple times before turning the gun on himself.
Simpson’s 11-year-old daughter was inside the apartment at the time of the murder-suicide, according to police. She is now staying with family.
Tavonna Smalls said her husband was about to knock on the ceiling at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when he sat back down. Then they heard four shots. There was a woman’s screams and stomping on the third floor above. Then two or three shots, then one or two more, and silence.
An 11-year-old girl was frantically banging on doors for help soon after. Assistant Chief Chris Butler of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said her mother, 45-year-old Nichelle R. Simpson, was shot and killed by her boyfriend before turning the gun on himself.
Simpson was found with multiple gunshot wounds and 44-year-old Stephen M. Harford with one, Butler said.
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