- April 19, 2024
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The bodies of David Sharp, 52, and Terry Sharp, 54, were found dead Sunday, March 20, in their home at 21 Barkwood Lane.
The lawn at 21 Barkwood Lane is tidy. The bushes near the front door are trimmed. The new gray pickup truck in the driveway sparkles from a recent washing. But inside, the bodies of a husband and wife, who were married for 15 years, were found Sunday, March 20, dead, lying next to a .12-guage shotgun.
David Sharp, who worked as a senior party chief for the last six years in the Palm Coast office for CPH Engineers Inc., was 52. According to the company, he had “an excellent work ethic.”
Terry Sharp, who worked for a photographer, was 54.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office declared the scene an apparent murder-suicide, with more details to follow, pending investigations by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Detectives said David shot his wife, then turned the gun on himself. No notes were found.
Autopsies were scheduled for Tuesday, March 22.
“You see this on TV,” said Sherry Abell, a neighbor since moving here June 2010. “You don’t think it can happen next door.”
She said the Sharps were kind people. When the Abells arrived in a moving truck in 2010, the Abells realized they had left the key to the lock back in North Carolina. David Sharp showed up with “big bolt cutters,” and helped.
She said David Sharp taught her son to play guitar. Terry Sharp went out of her way to have her car washed at a fundraiser in support of Abell’s daughter’s swim team. Terry walked her dog every day and waved as she passed the Abell home.
“You don’t think it’s going to happen to someone you know,” Abell said. Pointing to the yellow caution tape surrounding the Sharp residence, Abell said, “It’s overwhelming. It’s creepy.”
Another neighbor, Judy Marble, said David Sharp was a happy person, constantly washing his new truck, even though it was never dirty.
“They were nice people,” she said. “It’s unbelievable.”
The day after it happened, at around 9 a.m. Monday, March 21, a young man in work boots paced in front of the house. It was David Sharp’s son, also named David, 28.
“I’m still waiting on deputies for the investigation,” he said, his eyes bloodshot.
“I’m still in shock … They were laid back, nice people.”
Across the front of his black T-shirt was the name “Hungry Howie’s.” He said he heard the news while he was at work, in Orlando, and then drove here late Sunday night.
He said when he arrived, he folded down the back seat of his white Dodge Neon and slept in the back seat for three hours before getting out and slowly walking the street in front of the shiny pickup, the yellow caution tape, the friendly neighbors walking their dogs in the cool of the morning.
