Bob Kasarda

SANTA CLAUS — Police say a 48-year-old woman who called to report that she had shot her husband later died herself from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in this community in the far southwest part of the state.

Indiana State Police police said around 12:17 p.m. Tuesday the Spencer County Sheriff's Department received a call from Jamie Adkins, 48, stating she had just shot her husband.

Local and state police responded and discovered a deceased man with gunshot wounds, identified as 49-year-old John Adkins.

Jamie Adkins was also found with a gunshot wound and was taken to a Kentucky hospital where she died from her injury, police said.

The case remains under investigation, police said, and autopsies are scheduled.

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