On June 22, 2022, Courtney Huard, 42, was found dead from gunshot wounds at her Birchwood Drive home in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Officers arrived about 6:40 a.m. and also discovered her husband, 51-year-old Eric Huard, dead from gunshot wounds; their three children were in the house and were not physically harmed.

Investigators determined the deaths to be a murder-suicide, concluding Eric fatally shot Courtney before taking his own life, and cited marital problems as a factor. Courtney was a Cumberland High School graduate who earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Rhode Island and operated True Self Nutrition LLC with offices in Cumberland and Providence.

This was described as an isolated, domestic incident; no other suspects were sought.