Opelika, Al.
A Lee County grand jury will soon be presented with a ballistic analysis from weapons recovered from the Phenix City home in which Tammy Danielle Wade was found dead in 2011.
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| Edward Ray Wade |
“We have received ballistic results and this is what we were waiting on in order to present this case to the grand jury,” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said Monday. Jones’ office received the results Friday.
Authorities found Wade on the bathroom floor of her residence on Lee Road 597 with a single gunshot wound to the head early April 2, 2011. Wade was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:32 a.m. by Lee County Coroner Bill Harris. Her husband Edward Ray Wade was found standing on the front porch of the home the two shared, though he was not taken into police custody at that time.
Edward Ray Wade was arrested April 5 on an unrelated charge of third-degree domestic violence, booked into the Lee County Detention Facility and released after posting $1,000 bail. Edward Ray Wade, who still resides in the Phenix City area, has not been arrested in connection with the shooting, said Jones, who would not specifically identify him as a suspect.
“At this point in the investigation, (we’re) not ruling anything out,” Jones said.
Jones said there was evidence of an argument of some type prior to deputies receiving the call to the Wades’ home.
Two unregistered 9 mm handguns, one of which is thought to have been involved in the shooting, were found close to Tammy Danielle Wade’s body and sent for analysis by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Jones said. There is no requirement to register a handgun in the state of Alabama.
Deputies had responded on at least one other occasion to the Phenix City residence in regard to a domestic situation, Jones said.
Harris, who certified the manner of Tammy Danielle Wade’s death as undetermined, said that certification remains unchanged.
“I have not received any new information to lead me to change that one way or the other,” Harris said Monday.
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