An Alabama woman who was fatally shot by her boyfriend in a murder-suicide had hinted to her sister that she was in trouble before she died.

LaVentrice Denise Tolbert, 40, was shot by her boyfriend, Tony Dewayne Davis, 35, before he turned the gun on himself just before midnight on Sept. 24. By the time officers from the Birmingham Police Department arrived after hearing reports of a woman shot inside a house on Kiser Road, Denise Tolbert was already dead.

After lingering for two days, Davis ultimately died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Reporting from Al.com included details from inside the home, where another resident had heard the gunsho

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