Crime & Safety
Vacaville Police ID Couple Found In Murder-Suicide
Police identified 47-year-old Erik Mesick and 40-year-old Jerrica Chou as the dead pair.
Police have identified a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide in Vacaville on Tuesday as 47-year-old Erik Mesick and 40-year-old Jerrica Chou.
Police believe Mesick, a Vacaville resident, shot Chou in the head with a gun he had purchased a few days earlier, then shot and killed himself.
Chou, who lived in Vallejo, had been dating Mesick for a "short period of time," police said.
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Officers responded to reports of gunshots in the 100 block of Arroyo Court shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday and found Mesick and Chou in a vehicle with fatal gunshot wounds.
Neither had any history of domestic violence, and the case remains under investigation, police said.
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Mesick's Facebook profile lists his relationship status as "engaged."
--- Bay City News Service
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