Britney Tackett, 34, a White/Caucasian woman, was found dead on the evening of June 9, 2025, after deputies responded around 8:45 p.m. to reports of domestic violence involving a firearm at a home on Church Hill Road in Washington Township, Muskingum County, near Zanesville. Inside, authorities discovered two people deceased: Britney Tackett, 34, and her husband, Zackary Tackett, 34. Evidence at the scene led investigators to conclude that Zackary Tackett shot Britney Tackett three times before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The Muskingum County Sheriff's Office treated the case as a murder-suicide. With the suspected shooter also deceased, there were no arrests, though detectives continued to review the circumstances and asked anyone with information to contact their office. Public memorial notices and local coverage identified the victim as Britney Lee Gough-Tackett of Zanesville, confirming her age as 34 and the date of death as Monday, June 9, 2025.
Community pages recording incidents of fatal gun violence listed Britney Tackett, age 34, among those lost to shootings in Zanesville on June 9, 2025, and linked the case to the local murder-suicide investigation. These records echoed that authorities named the husband as the suspect who took Britney Tackett's life before taking his own, cementing the narrative that the tragedy ended at the scene with no surviving suspect to arrest.
