On January 30, 2018, at approximately 12:45 p.m., Yavapai County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to a welfare check request at a home in the 4100 block of Passage Lane, Rimrock, where they found 2 deceased persons found inside the home have been identified as Joseph Noble II, 54, and his wife, Cynthia Noble, 47.
The caller had seen doors at the home open since yesterday and thought it was suspicious. Deputies arrived and found a man and woman inside deceased from apparent gunshot wounds. A firearm was recovered at the scene.
Autopsy results have confirmed evidence reviewed at the scene which indicates Joseph shot his wife, possibly while she was asleep, and then shot and killed himself in the bedroom. There was no sign of a struggle in the home and ballistic evidence indicates a single suspect, Joseph, as the only shooter. Detectives noted there were prior domestic violence issues with the couple and Joseph had received mental health counseling in the past.
Yavapai County Sheriff Detectives are still working to narrow the time of occurrence except to know that the incident occurred sometime after 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 27, 2018.