Married NC hotel workers found murdered in room

GOLDSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina police are investigating the deaths of a couple found shot to death in a hotel where they lived and worked.

WRAL-TV reports that 65-year-old Suryakant Patel and his 61-year-old wife, Bhavanaben, were discovered dead Monday morning inside their room at the America’s Best Value Inn in Goldsboro,
about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. Both worked there.

A co-worker found the couple inside the room where they lived.

Goldsboro police and the State Bureau of Investigation are investigating their deaths as murders.

Police would not give any more details about the deaths.

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