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Posted: 10:35 p.m. Monday, April 30, 2012

No suspects in killing of Richmond teacher

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RICHMOND, Ind. —

No suspects have been identified in the homicide of a pregnant school teacher, found in her car Monday morning suffering from mortal gunshot wounds, police said.

The incident was being considered a homicide/feticide, according to Officer Ron Pennington, public information officer with the Richmond Police Department. He said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether the incident will be investigated as a double homicide.

The Wayne County Emergency Operations Center received a 911 call at about 7:23 a.m. from “a subject who reported she had discovered a female in a vehicle” in the 700 block of South 20th and G streets, according to the police department.

The caller told a 911 dispatcher the woman in the vehicle “appeared to be bleeding heavily.” The car, described as small and black, sat in the middle of the intersection, according to Officer Kevin Wampler, also a spokesman with the police department.

The victim, identified as 32-year-old Tonawanda Thompson, was pronounced dead at Reid Hospital. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds to her torso, according to police.

She “was in the late stages of pregnancy,” according to the police department and the county coroner's office.

The autopsy on the woman and her child has determined that the preliminary cause of death was loss of blood and oxygen to the brain due to the gunshot wounds suffered by the woman.

Police late Monday afternoon were interviewing friends and family in an effort to determine what had occurred.

According to neighbors, Thompson’s daughter, a seventh-grader, found her mother in the car.

Thompson was a sixth-grade teacher in the Fayette County School District, Superintendent Dr. Russell E. Hodges told News Center 7 and whiotv.com.

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