Mechel Maddox, 58, a White / Caucasian woman from Wichita Falls, was found dead on Sunday, August 10, 2025, after police were dispatched for a welfare check to a rural property in the 5300 block of Riley Road in north Wichita Falls. When officers arrived around 3:40 p.m., they discovered Mechel Maddox, 58, inside a residence on the property and a man, Jeffrey Kent Price, 55, in the front yard.
Investigators stated it appeared Price shot Mechel Maddox before turning the gun on himself, and the case was being handled as a suspected murder-suicide.
Police identified Jeffrey Kent Price as the only suspected shooter in the deaths and noted that the Crimes Against Persons Unit was continuing the investigation. No arrests were made because the suspected gunman was found dead at the scene. Independent listings that memorialize victims of gun violence recorded the incident for August 10, 2025, in Wichita Falls, corroborating the date and location of the killing of Mechel Maddox, 58.
Public records referenced in local reporting indicate a prior history between the pair. Wichita County court records showed Jeffrey Kent Price had been arrested on January 30, 2023, and again on July 22, 2024, in connection with alleged assaults involving Mechel Maddox, 58. One of those charges was later dismissed, and he was placed on nine months of deferred-adjudication probation on November 26, 2024. These details, published alongside news of the murder-suicide, provide context to the violent end that claimed the life of Mechel Maddox, 58.
The address area was variously reported as Riley or Reilly Road, but local coverage and mapping place the scene along the 5300 block in the city’s north side. Listings maintained by violence-tracking organizations also record the Wichita Falls case on that date, reinforcing the official account that Mechel Maddox, 58, was killed by gunfire and that the suspect, Jeffrey Kent Price, died by suicide at the scene.
