Laura Wright Demuth, age 63 and female, was found dead on August 16, 2025, in Dallas after officers were dispatched around 4:45 p.m. to the 7700 block of Greenway Boulevard. Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced Laura Wright Demuth, age 63 and female, deceased at the scene alongside 77-year-old William Price, both with gunshot wounds. The preliminary investigation indicated that William Price died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and detectives opened a case that Dallas police documented as
No. 117628-2025 while they worked to piece together the circumstances that led to the violence.
Authorities publicly identified the two people and described the incident as a suspected murder-suicide, noting there was no ongoing threat to the neighborhood. Reports from local outlets echoed the police account, placing Laura Wright Demuth, age 63 and female, and William Price together inside the residence when officers arrived, with investigators emphasizing the self-inflicted nature of Price’s fatal wound and the apparent domestic context. Neighbors and area coverage described the block as quiet, an ordinary weekend afternoon ruptured by the discovery.
Laura Wright Demuth, age 63 and female, was memorialized soon after, with death notices and community remembrances surfacing in Dallas publications and memorial pages. While one obituary lists her date of death as August 15, law-enforcement releases and subsequent reports describe officers responding and finding her on August 16, reflecting the timing between the incident and official response. The memorial listings and gun-violence databases recorded her name and age, placing her among those lost to shootings in Dallas that month.
Police have not announced any arrests. The only person investigators identified as responsible was William Price, who, according to the preliminary findings, took his own life after the shooting that killed Laura Wright Demuth, age 63 and female. The case remained under active investigation by Dallas detectives following the initial scene response, with requests for information directed to a department detective as part of the standard process for finalizing findings in a suspected murder-suicide.
