North Carolina murder-suicide of Army vet, wife leaves quiet community heartbroken

A murder-suicide in Whispering Pines, North Carolina, has left a quiet group heartbroken and confused.

Police within the small city simply north of Pinehurst — a historic {golfing} group surrounded by pine timber and constructed on sand — discovered husband and spouse Amber Jensen, 47, and David Jensen, 47, each lifeless from gunshot wounds on Sept. 6.

David Jensen, an Military veteran, had not confirmed up for work that day. Authorities had been known as to their residency after a neighbor discovered them deceased inside their house.

“Each victims had been deceased upon our officers’ arrival and each victims sustained gunshot wounds,” Whispering Pines Police Division Chief Jason Graham stated in a press launch on the time. “The investigation has decided this incident to be a homicide suicide.”

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Police additionally decided that there was “no ongoing menace to the group” after discovering the deceased couple.

“Please hold this household and our group in your prayers as this was a tragic state of affairs for everybody,” Graham stated.

Whispering Pines group members expressed shock in studying concerning the couple’s deaths on social media.

Amber Jensen ran an inside design firm known as “High quality Design,” specializing in kitchen and tub remodels.

Amber Jensen ran an inside design firm known as “High quality Design,” specializing in kitchen and tub remodels.
(High quality Design)

The “about” part on her web site stated the 47-year-old mom of two as a “works with householders, builders, architects and inside designers to collaborate on stunning areas.”

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“I like a shiny and ethereal design with a contact of heat. How about you?” Amber Jensen had written in a July 18 Fb submit.

Her husband was honored with the best civilian award for valor in April 2014. David Jensen was an Military contractor with Wexford Group Inc. who served with the U.S. Military Uneven Warfare Group as till 2013.

Amber Jensen’s husband, David Jensen, was honored with the best civilian award for valor at a Pentagon awards ceremony in April of 2014. 
(U.S. Military)

He was awarded the Workplace of the Secretary of Protection Medal for Valor, which “acknowledges authorities workers and personal residents who carry out an act of heroism whereas risking private security within the face of hazard,” for his service in Afghanistan in 2012, in line with the U.S. Military web site.

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Whereas he was deployed in Afghanistan as an operation advisor, he and his firm had been making ready to fly out of an airfield on a partnered air assault operation when one of many two plane they had been set to journey in was struck by a rocket and went up in flames. 

Jensen rescued a number of folks when an plane went up in flames when he was deployed in Afghanistan in 2012.
(U.S. Military)

Jensen instantly started evacuating each American and Afghan service members, returning to the burning plane a number of occasions to save lots of extra folks earlier than it was completely engulfed in flames, in line with the Military. 

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He then offered medical help to those that had been wounded within the assault.

“Being honored on the Pentagon Corridor of Heroes is outstanding,” Jensen stated on the time he was honored with the award. “I by no means would’ve imagined that in my complete life. So it is an enormous honor, and I am very blessed to be right here to be part of it, and really blessed to be part of the Uneven Warfare Group.”