Murder Suicide In Clay County

• {Bomont, West Virginia}...Police are investigating a murder suicide that occurred at a home on Darnell Hollow Road in the Bomont area of Clay County about 1:30 A.M. Friday morning. Investigators say 57 year old Ervin Bishop shot his wife, 49 year old Frances Bishop, during an argument then turned the gun on himself. Police say, when they arrived at the home, they found Francis Bishop lying on the front porch. She had been shot in the back. Inside the home, police found Erving Bishop lying in a hallway. Police believe there had been a pattern of domestic issues and that the couple had possibly separated or were in the process of divorcing. One grandchild was in the home at the time of the incident and heard the shooting before she walked out of a back bedroom to see her grandmother and grandfather both had been shot. She called her father, who then called police.