Sharon Leahey Adams, a white female, age 83, was found dead on May 22, 2025, inside a home on the 8600 block of Bristlecone Drive in Northwest San Antonio after officers conducted a welfare check and looked through a back window to see two unmoving figures on couches. When police entered, they discovered that Sharon Leahey Adams, 83, and her husband, 84-year-old Ernest Dean Adams, had been shot to death; the Bexar County Medical Examiner later ruled both deaths homicides.
There were no signs of forced entry, and investigators were uncertain how long the bodies had been inside before discovery.
The third person found in the residence was the couple's daughter, identified as 54-year-old Mariah Anne Adams, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; her death was ruled a suicide by the medical examiner. Early accounts from police and local reporters described the case as a double murder-suicide, with Sharon Leahey Adams, 83, remembered in these accounts as one of two elderly victims killed in their own home.
Detectives treated the scene as a family tragedy rather than a prolonged search for an at-large suspect. With the suspected shooter, Mariah Anne Adams, also deceased at the scene, authorities did not announce any arrests in connection with the killings of Sharon Leahey Adams, 83, and Ernest Dean Adams, 84. Records and reports emphasized that the investigation remained open as detectives worked to confirm the timeline and circumstances surrounding the shootings, but no additional suspects were named.
Public databases that track gun deaths recorded the case for May 22, 2025, listing Sharon Leahey Adams, 83, as a San Antonio victim of gun violence, aligning with the findings reported by local outlets and the medical examiner. As formal obituaries and memorial listings circulated in the weeks that followed, the narrative of a quiet home visited by officers on a welfare check—only to yield the grim discovery of Sharon Leahey Adams, 83, her husband, and their daughter—remained unchanged, with no further indication of arrests or outside suspects.
