{"id":125362,"date":"2025-03-24T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=125362"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:07:37","slug":"married-garner-couple-dead-in-suspected-murder-suicide-following-911-hang-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/married-garner-couple-dead-in-suspected-murder-suicide-following-911-hang-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Married Garner Couple Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide Following 911 Hang-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garner NC murder-suicide<\/h2>\n

A married couple was found dead in their home on Chaney Drive<\/em> near Cornwallis Road<\/em> in Garner North Carolina news murder-suicide on Saturday<\/em> evening, according to the Johnston County<\/a> Sheriff’s Office<\/strong><\/em>. Authorities are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, Johnston County<\/em> 911 dispatchers received a distress call that was suddenly disconnected. When dispatchers returned the call, 53-year-old Christopher Pugh<\/strong><\/em><\/a> answered, claiming he had not dialed emergency services. In the background, however, dispatchers could hear a woman\u2014later identified as his wife, 54-year-old Teresa Adams-Pugh<\/strong><\/em>\u2014pleading for help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputies responded to the couple\u2019s residence, where they reportedly heard gunfire upon arrival. Dispatchers attempted to contact the home again, and Christopher<\/em> reportedly answered, stating he would come outside\u2014but he never exited the residence. After deputies were unable to re-establish contact with Christopher<\/em>, they set up a perimeter and began preparing for a possible hostage or barricaded subject situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that night, law enforcement obtained a search warrant and entered the home around 11 p.m., where they discovered Christopher<\/em> and Teresa<\/em> deceased from gunshot wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office<\/em> is currently treating the case as a domestic murder-suicide, though the investigation remains ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garner NC murder-suicide A married couple was found dead in their home on Chaney Drive near Cornwallis Road in Garner North Carolina news murder-suicide on Saturday evening, according to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide. Around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, Johnston County 911 dispatchers received a distress call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5322,5323,4191,38,5324],"class_list":["post-125362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-news","tag-domestic-violence-awareness","tag-garner-nc-news","tag-johnston-county-sheriffs-office","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-murder-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}