Special Olympics community in shock after double shooting

A double shooting has left the Southland Special Olympics community in shock.

It is understood special Olympic power lifter Sarah-Jane Dore and her father Graeme Dore died at their home in Isla Bank late yesterday afternoon.

Sarah-Jane Dore represented New Zealand at the Special Olympics in Shanghai last year. Her mother Catherine is chairwoman of Special Olympics Southland.

A committee member who does not want to be named said news of the tragedy was a massive blow for the Special Olympics family and the Isla Bank rural community.

The source said the family had everything to look forward to and was planning to sell up the farm and retire closer to Invercargill.

Police are not looking for anyone in connection with the fatalities.

- NEWSTALK ZB