Fargo Couple Found Dead | Video

Valley News Live | 7/10/2012

Fargo police say a relative checked on a woman who didn`t show up at work today and found her and her husband dead. They say it appears Daniel Williams shot his wife Linda and then shot himself.

Neighbors say the couple was kind and friendly.

Karen Olson was just getting home from work when she saw the mess on her formerly quiet street around 4:30, just as investigators were bringing out the bodies of her neighbors.

"Scott has lived here his whole life, it still hasn`t sunk in yet. there`s never been anything like this on this street before."

She hustled her 6-year-old daughter indoors before she could ask too many questions about what police say appears to be a husband who turned on his wife, then himself. The little girl had just met Daniel and Linda Williams a couple of weeks ago.

"She said, `Mommy, they`re so nice, their house is so nice.` I said, `Well, that`s great, but you can`t just go pushing yourself inside like that.`"

Olson says she did notice the Williamses had missed their usual streetwide fireworks watching tradition. She didn`t, at the time, make anything of it.

She, and the rest of the tight-knit neighborhood, are left wondering what could have triggered this.

The bodies have been sent to Bismarck for autopsies. Daniel Williams was 54, Linda was 51.

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