New Mexico authorities said a North Texas married couple found fatally shot in a pickup parked along a New Mexico interstate Thursday died from a murder-suicide.
New Mexico State Police said they identified the couple as 32-year-old North Dallas High School teacher Ursula Tammy Kokotkiewicz and her 31-year-old husband Jacob Kokotkiewicz, both of Flower Mound.
A police statement did not specify which victim killed the other, but the statement said Jacob Kokotkiewicz was found with a handgun between his legs.
The statement said there was no evidence that anybody else was involved and that investigators will check electronic devices found in the vehicle as they try to determine a motive.
A State Police officer found the bodies of the couple on Interstate 40 near Albuquerque after stopping to check the welfare of the occupants of the vehicle.
It was parked on the eastbound shoulder with its engine running.
