Overview
- Gendarmes reached the hamlet of Retjons around 12:30 and found two adults fatally shot along with a dead dog.
- The suspected shooter was evacuated to hospital with life-threatening injuries after an apparent suicide attempt.
- The Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor opened an investigation for assassinations and assigned it to the local gendarmerie brigade.
- Local reporting says the victims were 74 and 75 and that the suspected gunman, 54, owns the house where the couple lived.
- Authorities are examining a possible neighbor or rental dispute as the motive, which remains unconfirmed.