Police: 9-Year-Old Kills Mom, Self

When several family members forced their way into the suburban red brick home Glenda Pulley lived in with her nine-year-old son, they found the residents' two dead bodies and a suicide note from the son, Tyler.

Police and local Sheriff's deputies are calling the shooting deaths a murder-suicide, saying they found evidence that Tyler Pulley shot his 38-year-old mother on Saturday before turning the gun on himself, according to reports on WRAL-TV.

The mother was found with a gun shot in the back of her head and the son was lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to his chin, investigators said.

Deputies also said the youth left a suicide note stating he was sorry for his actions.

Both bodies were transported to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Chapel Hill for autopsies, Warren County Sheriff Johnny M. Williams told the television station. Officials say they're waiting for autopsy results before releasing any further details.

Deloris Stamper, who lives across the street from the Pulleys, told the Raleigh News and Observer that said she was in disbelief at the apparent murder-suicide.

"She was a nice person," Stamper said of the Glenda Pulley. "She was friendly. Whatever you asked her to do for you, she'd do it. If you needed help, she'd help you."

Stamper said Pulley, a county health department worker, lived in the red-brick house with Tyler and an adult son. Tyler was "a typical little kid who would just play and go to school," she told the newspaper. He liked to play basketball and baseball, she said.

The television station reports that the sheriff says this case deeply affected employees in the office.

"When I go there, I was just as shocked as any of the family members to learn that a 9-year-old person, that a 9-year-old person allegedly did something like this to his mother," Williams said. "It's just unbelievable."