ALABAMA – According to the police officials, her name is Leslie Gillespie and she was found dead at her home in Hillsboro, a small town in Lawrence County at approximately 11:40 a.m.
The 44-year-old woman was an English teacher at R.A. Hubbard.
The county coroner say it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The 44-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on felony charges of having sex with two students, ages 15 and 16 at the time.
The suspect was booked into the Lawrence County jail on two counts of school employee engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19 and one count each of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy.
Gillespie was released on $60,000 bail Thursday.
