Last Friday, it started with a phone call to the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office. A sergeant there says the caller thought her friend may have killed someone. After finding a body at a house in Lacey Spring, the surrounding neighborhood is speaking out.

Neighbor Robert Delauder says, "It's very quiet. Very, very quiet. Everyone seems to tend to their own business so to speak."

However, that quiet was recently destroyed. Delauder has lived next door to a home on Grassland Lane for 42 years.

He says, "You just don't imagine, or dream, that something like this could actually happen."

Last Friday, Rockingham County Sheriff's investigators recovered the body of 23-year-old Dustin Ray Stout Stanley inside the house. The victim had multiple gunshot wounds. The Sheriff's Office says Stanley lived part time on Grassland Lane and part time in Mount Jackson.

Later that night, 34-year-old Donna Jean Hockman, who stayed in the Grasslands residence, was booked at the Rockingham County Jail on a charge of first degree murder. Delauder didn't know the woman, but he grew suspicious of the property, because he was seeing cars at the house at random times.

Delauder says, "And you'd see them there two or three days and then they'd be gone, and maybe a week or ten days later, they'd be back."

Residents nearby say the house has actually been up for sale for months, and Hockman was probably renting from the seller.

Delauder says, in his 42 years in Lacey Spring, he has never seen anything like this.

"It's a shock. Well, it was so close to my house. That's what the scary thing is," says Delauder.

The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office says the investigation is currently ongoing, and more information will be available after an autopsy is done. Stanley's body was found with multiple gunshot wounds.