A woman killed in a double murder-suicide on Hilton Head Island had recently filed a complaint of domestic violence against her suspected killer, an ex-boyfriend whom she reported having issues with in the past.
Bluffton resident Catherine Warrington, 50, was walking out of a dinner party with Hilton Head man David Duffey, 62, in the island’s North Forest Beach neighborhood Thursday night when both were fatally struck by a sudden surge of gunfire. Deputies said they found their bodies outside the home.
Police identified the suspected shooter as 52-year-old Bluffton resident Dustin Linsley, using license plate cameras to track him down to his home on Promenade Street. After several hours of negotiations with the suspect over the phone — in the midst of which a 56-year-old woman inside the apartment was able to leave unharmed — police found Linsley dead inside the unit from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 4:40 a.m. Friday.
Warrington told Bluffton police that Linsley had shown up at her house “unannounced” the night of Jan. 30. He stayed for hours, threatening her several times and eventually pulling a gun on her, according to a report she filed with the Bluffton Police Department three days later…