Delaware, Ohio: Two Dead After Shooting at Home on Exeter Drive

Updated Nov 7, 2026, 16:29 UTC

Delaware police have identified the two people who died as Tamara Galloway, 56, and Antoine Galloway, 57, a married couple who lived at the Exeter Drive home. In a later release on Friday, reported by The Columbus Dispatch and Delaware Source, police said Antoine Galloway was pronounced dead at the scene and Tamara Galloway was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware, where she was pronounced dead.

Police said their preliminary findings suggest the shooting stemmed from "domestic concerns" between Tamara and Antoine Galloway and is consistent with a murder-suicide. The 911 caller was the couple's daughter. She told police her father had shot her mother and then himself, according to the release. Three generations of family members who live at the home were present at the time of the shooting, including adult children and several minor grandchildren, according to police.

Staff from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office assisted city police, along with investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and the investigation remains ongoing. The original report below was published before the names and the preliminary findings were released.

Delaware police responded to a reported shooting at a home on Exeter Drive at about 7:06 a.m. on Friday, November 6, 2026. The address was reported as 626 Exeter Drive in Delaware, Ohio. Officers who arrived at the home found two people with gunshot wounds.

An adult male was pronounced dead at the scene. An adult female was taken by the Delaware Fire Department to Grady Memorial Hospital. She later died from her injuries there. The two deaths are the only casualties reported in the police release, and no other injuries were described.

What the 911 caller reported

The police account of the morning starts with a 911 call. According to the department news release, the caller reported that one family member had shot another family member before shooting themselves. Delaware Source and The Columbus Dispatch both reported that account from the same police release on Friday.

Police passed on the caller's account in their release. They did not adopt it as their own finding. The department has not confirmed who fired the shots, and the incident remains under investigation. Until investigators report more, the sequence in the 911 call stands as a report, not as an established fact.

State investigators assist

Investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are assisting Delaware police with the case. Personnel from the Delaware County Coroner's Office are also assisting. Officers were expected to remain in the area for several hours on Friday as the investigation continued at and around the home.

No ongoing threat, police say

Police said they believe the shooting is an isolated incident. They said it involved the parties directly involved, and that there is no known ongoing threat to the community. That assessment was part of the same Friday release, issued while officers were still working in the area.

What has not been released

Several basic facts have not been made public. Police have not released the name of the man or the woman who died. No motive was stated in the release. Police have not said, beyond the caller's description of family members, how the two people were related. Those questions now sit with the local and state investigators working on the case.

For now, the confirmed record is short. A 911 call brought officers to 626 Exeter Drive at about 7:06 a.m. Two people were found shot. One died at the scene, and one died at the hospital. State investigators and the county coroner's office are helping, and police say the public is not in danger.