Slain Madison couple had no police history

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: May 5, 2008

There was no history of police calls to a home where an apparent murder-suicide took place in Madison County last week, the county’s sheriff said today.
Madison County Sheriff Erik Weaver said police had no history of domestic dispute between Cynthia D. Nicholson and Manuel Paul Nicholson Jr. that police knew about. Police found the couple dead in their home on the 3000 block of Ridgeview Road shortly before 10 p.m. Friday. Manuel Nicholson was found in the garage and had a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the upper torso, according to police, and Cynthia was found with a gunshot wound to the upper torso.
Cynthia Nicholson called her brother-in-law to come over and try to calm down her husband, the sheriff said. Weaver said it’s likely she feared for her life.
“Everybody argues, but for something to go like this, this is very unusual in Madison County,” Weaver said.

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