Morgan County Woman Shot Before Fire Started

Morgan County Prosecutor, Mark Howdyshell, says preliminary autopsy reports confirm that 55-year-old Rosemary Brown did not die from the fire that was set to her Frash Road home last Tuesday night. Instead, he says they show she died from a gun shot wound to the chest before the fire even started.

It stems from a murder-suicide case that the Sheriff’s Office has been investigating.

Sheriff Tom Jenkins says he believes Brown’s brother, 61-year-old Charles Turner, went to Brown’s home, shot her, and burnt her home to the ground.

Jenkins then says Turner went to his own home, where he blocked the driveway with tree trunk so crews could not get up the hill to reach his home. Jenkins says crews found Turner had set fire to two of his cars and his own mobile home, before killing himself.