Police identify man and woman in Santa Rosa murder-suicide
Sonoma County officials have identified two people found dead in a Santa Rosa apartment last week after a domestic violence incident, police said.
Emily Hemming, 24, is believed to have been shot multiple times with an assault rifle by Vicente Carrillo-Cedillo, 24, before he shot himself, the Santa Rosa Police Department said Wednesday. The two were identified by the Sonoma County coroner.
Investigators believe that Hemming and Carrillo-Cedillo were dating and living together in the apartment after moving to Santa Rosa from Southern California in 2022. The couple had no children, authorities said.
Police said neither Hemming nor Carrillo-Cedillo had any reports related to domestic violence in Santa Rosa or in Southern California.
Officers arrived at an apartment unit where Hemming and Carrillo-Cedillo lived, in a fourplex on Atlanta Court, around 2:40 p.m. on June 11 after a report about possible domestic violence from a caller, who was not at the home but had received information about the incident, police said.
Police said they were unable to make contact with anyone inside, though neighbors said they heard what appeared to be gunshots about 20 minutes before officers arrived.
Around 4:30 p.m., SWAT officers entered the apartment and found two people, later identified as Hemming and Carrillo-Cedillo, in a back bedroom with gunshot wounds. They were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Investigators found four guns in the apartment, two pistols, an assault rifle and a shotgun, that were owned by Carrillo-Cedillo, police said.
The incident marked the eighth homicide in Santa Rosa in 2025, and the second murder-suicide incident of the year.
Police advised anyone experiencing domestic violence or concerned about a loved one experiencing domestic violence to reach out for help, including from the Family Justice Center of Sonoma County at 707-565-8255 or the YWCA Sonoma County, which has a confidential crisis hotline available any time of day at 707-546-1234.
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