PONCE DE LEON — Pensacola resident Joshua Brandyn Gaskey now faces two counts of murder in Holmes County.
Sheley Glenn Brooks and his wife Jacqulyn Brooks were found shot in the head Saturday at a home in Ponce de Leon, according to the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office.
Jacqulyn Brooks was dead when emergency crews arrived.
Sheley Brooks, who had been discharged from Bay Medical Sacred Heart Monday, died Tuesday evening, according to Lt. Adrienne Odum with the Sheriff’s Office.
The couple were the father and mother of Walton County Deputy County Administrator Dede Hinote.
Gaskey was being held Wednesday in the Escambia County jail on charges of grand theft, fraud and larceny when he was connected to the shootings.
The Sheriff’s Office has charged him with one open count of murder in Jacqulyn Brooks’ death and was likely processing another murder charge Wednesday, Odum said.
Odum said she did not know when Gaskey might be transferred to Holmes County for a first appearance. Court records indicate it could be awhile.
Gaskey is being held on a $525,000 bond in Escambia. He will be arraigned there May 14, according to jail records.
He also must appear in Santa Rosa County, where records show another hold has been placed on him.
Odum said an arrest report filed in the Gaskey case would be released “once investigators get everything together.”
She declined to release information about a motive for the shooting or what, if any, relationship Gaskey might have had with the Brooks family.