FORT BRAGG, NC. -- Authorities in North Carolina say a paratrooper originally from Missouri shot and killed his wife over the weekend before turning the gun on himself.

Investigators say the bodies of 24-year-old Staff Sergeant Seth Andrews and his wife, Hillary, were found at their home in Raeford, North Carolina.

The Fort Bragg paratrooper recently returned from Iraq and was a native of Moberly, Missouri.