An hours-long investigation into the Thursday death of a 59-year-old Murray man eventually led police back to the same apartment complex, one floor below the victim, where they found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police first learned of the shooting about 3:15 p.m. Thursday, when they got calls about someone firing shots the Birkhill Apartments complex, at 4262 S. Jummer Way (about 100 West).
When officers arrived, they found Brad Gukeisen dead with multiple gunshot wounds, just inside the doorway to his apartment, police spokesman Officer Kenny Bass said at a Friday news conference.
Witnesses gave police conflicting descriptions of the purported shooter, but all believed he fled the scene after the shooting. Police searched the area, but found no one.
Hours later, sometime after 10 p.m., police found the suspected shooter, 70-year-old David Cuningham, dead in his own apartment, one floor below Gukeisen’s, Bass said.
The shooting apparently stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the two men, although police said they weren’t sure what the conflict was about.
Bass didn’t say what led investigators to Cuningham’s home. Bass said he didn’t know how soon after Gukeisen’s death that Cuningham killed himself.
He added it must have happened soon afterward because police received only one report of a shooting at the complex.
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