Autopsy: Raleigh mother shot seven times in murder-suicide

Ashley Talarico was shot once in the head, three times in the back, once in the chest and once in each arm, according to an autopsy report. She also had a bruise on her right eye and some scrapes on her face.

Her mother, Alba Cimino, said her daughter had a troubled marriage and had confided in friends that she planned to leave her husband.

'She was petrified of him,' says mother of woman killed in north Raleigh murder-suicide

Investigators recovered eight .40-caliber shell casings from the house, along with a Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun, according to a search warrant.

Nicholas Talarico's mother called 911 to report she had found her son dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an upstairs room upon returning home from the neighborhood swimming pool with the Talaricos' two sons, according to an application for a warrant to search the Talarico home for evidence.