{"id":438255,"date":"2026-09-17T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:42:11","slug":"two-found-dead-in-kerrville-home-in-possible-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438255\/","title":{"rendered":"Two found dead in Kerrville home in possible murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Two people were found dead Wednesday morning inside a home in Kerrville, prompting an ongoing death investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kerrville Police Department, officers were called to the 600 block of Lois Street about 9:45 a.m. to check on a man who had not been seen for several days. <\/p>\n<p>After entering the residence, they found an adult man and woman with apparent gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was identified as 62-year-old Shannon Ratliff. The man was identified as 64-year-old Wayne Ratliff.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the deaths as a possible murder-suicide. Wayne Ratliff is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Two people were found dead Wednesday morning inside a home in Kerrville, prompting an ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-438255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}