NOCATEE, Fla. — UPDATE, 5/13/19, 4 p.m.: The man and woman found dead in a home on Southern Oak Drive on Saturday have been identified.
According to the Medical Examiner's Office, the victim was identified as Lynn Michele Bender, 53 of Ponte Vedra and her death was ruled a homicide and the manner of death was by gunshot wound.
The suspect was identified as Simon Patrick Hanley, 60, and his death was ruled a suicide and the manner of death was by gunshot wound.
Original story below:
A local realtor and a man were found dead inside a home on Southern Oak Drive on Saturday afternoon.
Investigators said a family member and a friend did a welfare check and found the bodies. Several neighbors referred to the woman who lived there as Lynn and said she was a realtor in town.
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“Very lovely lady, kind, caring,” said Nicolas Romano, a neighbor.
Romano and Jane Amorim said they walked their dogs together with Lynn and had just talked to her Wednesday. Amorim said a former boyfriend had recently been giving Lynn a hard time.
“She told us she was afraid of someone to the point she took out a restraining order on him, and just the way she described how he had been acting towards her, he did seem dangerous,” Amorim said.
While Amorim said she noticed a black car parked in the back of the house for a couple of days, she didn’t think anything of it.
“I do feel like I didn’t do right by her, and, but of course, I couldn’t have known,” she said.
While deputies are calling the deaths suspicious, they said they are not looking for a suspect.
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