Hiding man shoots and kills firefighter leaving his estranged wife’s house, NC cops say

A man shot and killed a firefighter who stepped outside his estranged wife’s house, North Carolina officials say.

The husband had parked a pickup truck in the driveway and was “lying in wait,” the Granite Quarry-Faith Joint Police Department told WSOC and other news outlets.

When the firefighter left the home on Wednesday, the husband came out of his hiding place and fired a round from a shotgun, the Salisbury Post reports. The bullet struck the firefighter in the head, officials told the newspaper.

That’s when the husband went inside the house to confront his wife and shot himself, according to WBTV.

The apparent murder-suicide happened in Granite Quarry, a small town in Rowan County and roughly 40 miles northeast of Charlotte. There hadn’t been a murder in the area in about two decades, WSOC reports.

“This is highly unusual for us, a very quiet, quaint community,” police chief Mark Cook told WBTV.

The firefighter was identified as Tyler William Hamilton, 30, according to the station.

Officers say the shooter was Andrew Lee Myers, 26, who WSOC reports also was a firefighter.

The act of violence “appeared to be the result of a domestic situation that took a turn for the worse,” police told the Salisbury Post.