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GRANTON - A man who lived with a
woman found fatally shot in the head called 911 to report
the shooting and is not a suspect in her death, Clark County
Sheriff Louis Rosandich said.
But investigators have not
determined whether the death of Mary C. Frick, 45, was a
homicide, suicide or an accident, Rosandich said Friday.
The 911 call was made about
7:30 a.m. Tuesday, the sheriff said. Frick's body was found
in a kitchen area of her rural Granton home and there were
no signs of a struggle. She was shot once with a rifle that
was found near her body, he said.
Rosandich declined comment on
whether a suicide note was found or whether the victim was
suffering emotional troubles. He said he did not know who
owned the rifle.
Rosandich, who was first to
respond to the 911 call, described the man who made the call
as an "acquaintance" of Frick's who had been
living with her for about a month. The man was distraught
when police arrived, the sheriff said.
"He is a person of
interest because he was in the house," the sheriff
said.
Rosandich declined to give
the man's name or age, other than he was an adult, and would
not say what he told investigators.
"We got a statement and
that will be evaluated and cross-referenced with other
information we are receiving," the sheriff said.
"This person was the last person to see her
alive."
Investigators are awaiting
results of an autopsy and forensic tests before ruling
anything out, Rosandich said. "The human body tells you
a lot of things."
Asked whether the public
should be worried about a random killer running loose in the
slaying, the sheriff said, "In the times we are living
in, you have to be conscious of your surroundings all the
time, everybody around you. You don't know."
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