The Latest On The Deadly Shooting In Coffee County

A preliminary autopsy revealed that Thomas Colucci died of multiple gunshot wounds. The autopsy was conducted yesterday (Nov. 14) by the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Nashville. Colucci’s body was found Tuesday morning in his residence on Maple Springs Road in the Pocahontas community. His body was found after a passerby saw his fiancé Connie King with blood on her, running in the yard screaming for help. The passerby then called 911.
Sheriff Steve Graves says that King suffered injuries in the attack.
Sheriff’s investigators spent Wednesday at the Maple Springs Road residence sifting through evidence that they found. They plan to send that evidence to the TBI Crime Lab in Nashville for analysis. The sheriff stated that investigators will wait on the lab to do testing on the evidence but “in the meantime they will continue to investigate why Colucci was killed and King was attacked. King was transported to a Manchester hospital for treatment of her injuries.
The sheriff did not reveal what evidence had been collected. He stated that investigators are still attempting to determine a motive for the murder and attack.