Murder suspect Peter Alexander Bohning has been fatally shot during an altercation with law enforcement in Gaines County, Texas.
A Gaines County deputy was stabbed in the altercation and was taken to an El Paso hospital. The deputy’s injury is reportedly not life threatening.
The Gaines County deputy encountered Bohning while answering a suspicious vehicle call. That vehicle was the victims’ gray 2010 Toyota Camry.
Bohning, 34, of Kent, Connecticut, was wanted in connection with Friday afternoon’s stabbing attack on a West Nashville couple, Donald and Leigh Ann Zirkle, of Cherokee Road.
DEVELOPING: Husband killed & wife critically injured by stab wounds at their home in Nashville. A man walked up to them on their back porch, indicated he was lost & attacked them.
The suspect is Peter Bohning, 34, of Connecticut. His whereabouts are unknown. pic.twitter.com/q8iv3TzmAl
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 22, 2019
Officers were called to the area at 3:30 p.m. after Leigh Ann Zirkle, 58, fled the couple’s residence and collapsed in the street with significant wounds, including one to her neck. Neighbors rendered aid as officers and Nashville Fire Department paramedics responded. When officers arrived, they cleared the residence and found Donald Zirkle, 59, critically wounded at the rear. He was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he died.
Although seriously wounded, Leigh Ann Zirkle was able to communicate with detectives at the hospital. It appears that the Zirkles were sitting on their back porch when a stranger, described as a white man in his 20s to 30s with long blonde hair and a dirty yellow shirt, approached and asked for directions before attacking the couple with a sharp instrument. Leigh Ann Zirkle was able to make it into the house and ran out the front door into the street.
The killer was thought to have fled in the Zirkle’s 2010 gray Toyota Camry bearing Tennessee license number NP5-937.
Bohning’s family in Connecticut told authorities there that they have not heard from him in several days.
The crime is considered an armed robbery but it is unclear why Bohning targeted the victims.
