Little Rock police say Donna Galvin, 54, was fatally wounded and David Galvin, 58, died of a self-inflected gunshot about 4 a.m. this morning at their home at 6 Glendale.

Police found the Galvins in a bathroom. Donna Galvin had wounds to the upper body. She died after being taken to a hospital. David Galvin had been shot in the head and police said his wound appeared self-inflected. He was dead at the scene.

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Donna Galvin’s mother, reportedly in poor health, was at the home at the time but said she’d slept through the shooting. Donna Galvin asked her 17-year-old son to call 911 and he did so from a neighbor’s house.

Donna Galvin’s slaying was the city’s 18th homicide of the year.

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