‘Shocked and grieving’: Restaurant owners found dead in apparent murder-suicide at Johnston County home, deputies say

FOUR OAKS, N.C. (WNCN) — An investigation is underway after a husband and wife were found dead Wednesday evening in what deputies said was a murder-suicide.

According to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office, deputies conducted a welfare check at a home on Grants Way off of Lassiter Road.

Deputies said they found 49-year-old Hector Meraz and his wife 47-year-old Norma Merales inside the living quarters of a shed located behind the house…

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