Police: Couple Shot, Killed Inside Their McAlester Home

McAlester Police are investigating the deaths of two residents in their community Thursday evening.

Assistant Police Chief Darrell Miller says the bodies of 32-year-old Bonifacio Perez-Contreras and 31-year-old Elizabeth Lacy were found in their home at about 5:30 p.m.

Both appear to have died from gunshot wounds, Miller said. He says investigators are treating this as a double homicide, but say some signs point to a murder suicide. 

The home is located in the 300 block of West Taylor.

Police don't know much, but we've learned they've recently had a rocky relationship.

Both Lacy and Perez-Contreras had multiple children from previous relationships, and both were married to other people, but separated. They moved in together when she became pregnant with his daughter, who's now 14 months old.

Lacy recently wrote on her Facebook page their relationship was going badly. Around 5:30 Thursday night, her mother found the couple dead inside their home.

"We heard that it's a murder-suicide although until we have evidence of that, we will treat it as a double homicide and do everything we can possibly do to get the facts," said Assistant Chief of McAlester Police Darrell Miller.

Police says Lacy's mother discovered the bodies. She's now caring for the couple's daughter and Lacy's teenaged twin boys to help them through the tragedy.

Perez-Contreras worked in construction and was a resident of the neighborhood for several years.

"We looked out last night and saw the police cars and the yellow tape. We thought, this is not happening. These are our neighbors," said June Stone of McAlester.

June Stone lived across the street from Elizabeth Lacy, and her boyfriend Bonifacio Perez-Contreras for the past year-and-a-half.

"We never saw, we never heard any yelling, screaming. None of that," she said.

Instead, Stone remembers Lacy as an attentive mother and Perez-Contreras, or Boni as friends called him, as a helpful neighbor who worked in construction.

"Just recently when we had a storm come through he was one of the first ones to get up there on the neighbor's roof because it had blown a lot of shingles off," Stone said.

The 14-month-old daughter was not home when the couple died.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the McAlester Police Department with their investigation. 

McAlester Police are asking anyone who can help them figure out what happened during the couple's final hours to step forward. McAlester Police are asking anyone who can help them figure out what happened during the couple's final hours to step forward.