A man who shot and killed his ex-wife in front of her Marana home before turning the gun on himself last month had an assortment of drugs in his system, an autopsy shows.
The incident started about 5 p.m. May 25 when the body of Mikaela Durfey was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the driveway of her house near North Silverbell and North Cortaro roads by Marana police officers responding to a shooting call, the department has said.
Witnesses told police Durfey鈥檚 ex-husband, Brian Schnurr, 37, fled in a blue Dodge Challenger with their two young children after the shooting, court documents show.
Later, police found his car parked at a nearby restaurant. Police units pinned the car, then pulled the pair's two children out of the vehicle. Neither child was injured, police said.
The eldest of the two children told police Schnurr walked away from the car with a handgun in tow, court documents show.
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Officers searching the area then found Schnurr's body roughly 200 yards away with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, police said.
Before taking his own life, Schnurr texted Durfey's parents to pick up the pair's children, court documents show.
The toxicology report on Shcnurr, a chiropractor, showed he had amphetamines, cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cannabinoids and several other prescription drugs in his system at the time of his death.
Police found another loaded gun in Shcnurr's vehicle and a shotgun and illicit drugs at his midtown home, records show.
