HOFFMAN — The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of two people who died in what investigators belive to be a murder-suicide earlier this month.
According to the sheriff’s office, the two individuals involved were 46-year-old Sheldon Maurice Nealy and 38-year-old Kanisha Maranda Harrison.
The RCSO previously announced that deputies were dispatched to a home on McCoy Drive in Hoffman the morning of Aug. 4 in response to a possible domestic dispute and shots fired.
While clearing the home, deputies reportedly encountered a locked bedroom door and heard a gunshot from the room when they attempted to breach the door.
Inside, they found the bodies of Nealy and Harrison.
(Note: Harrison is named as “Kanisha Maranda Nealy” in her obituary from Nelson Funeral Service. Her funeral was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.)
Chief Deputy Jay Childers told the RO on Tuesday that the case remains under investigation “while every little detail is followed up on and autopsy reports come back.”
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction show Nealy has a violent past.
He was released from prison in November 2022 — and his parole ended June 9 2023 — after spending more than a decade behind bars from convictions in 2010 of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury in Moore County.
Nealy served two and a half years behind bars when he was convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance.
Records show Nealy was first convicted in 1994 of damage to property and possession with intent to sell a Schedule II controlled substance. Between the two convictions, he was incarcerated for three months.
His probation on both convictions was revoked in 1995 and he spent the next three years in prison. Several months after his release in 1997, Nealy was convicted of resisting a public officer.
In 1998, Nealy was convicted of possession with intent to sell a Schedule II controlled substance and assault inflicting serious injury. Twenty days before his release in April 1999, Nealy was convicted of driving with a revoked license, keeping him behind bars for several more weeks.
Nealy was also convicted of driving while license revoked (again) in 1999, 2000 and 2002.
