Jacksonville police find 2 bodies at trailer park

Jacksonville police on Thursday were investigating an apparent murder-suicide after two people were found dead, according to an agency spokesman.

Authorities were notified of the deaths midday Thursday, and a child was at the residence when the deaths occurred, according to police spokesman April Kiser.

Crime-scene tape blocked off Hamilton Street in Jacksonville on Thursday afternoon as investigators worked in a small mobile-home park.

Authorities filtered in and out of a residence inside the park. Steps away from the crime-scene tape, a child popped his upper body out of a police car. An officer watched over the child.

Kiser said the deceased are a man and a woman, but she did not identify them early Thursday afternoon. She also did not provide a cause of death.

A neighborhood resident, Jimmy James, said he had a conversation with the deceased man earlier Thursday and said that the man looked as if he had been up all night.

“I can’t believe it,” James said, peering over at the crime scene.

If confirmed, it will be the second murder-suicide in Pulaski County in the past three days.

North Little Rock police said a man fatally shot 19-yearold Chasity Cannady outside a Maybelline cosmetics factory early Wednesday, then killed himself before authorities arrived.

The department identified the gunman as 32-year-old Jim Gilot of Missouri. Officers were dispatched to the factory at 3:07 a.m. and found Cannady dead in her vehicle, police said in a statement Thursday. Gilot was found dead near her vehicle.

Cannady and Gilot were not involved in any romantic relationship but were co-workers in the same area of the plant, the department reported Thursday.

The statement said investigators are working to determine a motive.