Suicide Victim Discovered By Passersby

On Monday, May 25th, two people test driving a vehicle on the parkway discovered a car in the Walnut Cove overlook with the front driver’s side window shattered. They checked the car, thinking that the window had been broken out in a car larceny, and found the body of a woman with a single gunshot wound to her head and a loaded .45 caliber handgun in her lap. Rangers responded and investigated the incident with the assistance of Buncombe County Sheriffs Office deputies. The 25-year-old woman, who was from Chandler, North Carolina, had been despondent about a hit and run accident she was involved in the previous night. Investigators concluded that the death was a suicide.