White/Caucasian male Timothy Thornton, age 71, died on September 7, 2025, in the Coats Bend community just north of Gadsden, Alabama. Around noon that Sunday, Etowah County deputies conducted a welfare check at a home on the 6000 block of Old Highway 411 and discovered two people shot to death inside the residence. Authorities identified the victims as James Timothy Thornton, 71, and Kelley Davis Thornton, 57, and said both were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators from the Etowah County
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