Virgin River actor Callum Kerr is navigating a tragic loss.

The Scottish performer's mother, Morning time Searle, and stepfather, Andrew Searle, were stumbled on uninteresting at their home in Les Pesquies, south of the commune of Villefranche-de-Rouergue in France Feb. 6, a few outlets hold reported. They’re survived by Callum, 30, and his sister and Andrew's two early life from a outdated relationship.

A family assertion relating to the tragedy modified into posted on the actor's Instagram Feb. 8. “At the present, Callum and Amanda Kerr are grieving the loss of their mother, Morning time Searle (née Smith, Kerr),” the message read, “while Tom Searle and Ella Searle are mourning the loss of their father, Andrew Searle.”

The post persisted, “No family member is accessible for media interviews or comments. We kindly build a matter to that their privateness be respected for the interval of this complex interval. We will have the option to present updates as applicable. Thanks on your understanding.”

The causes of the deaths of Morning time, 56, and Andrew, 62, hold no longer been launched.

Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mayor Jean-Sébastien Orcibal has also spoken out relating to the tragedy.

“I modified into phoned the day prior to this at around 12.30pm as mayor to learn that two our bodies were display in their property,” he instantaneous the U.K. newspaper the Telegraph Feb. 7. “With the native police and gendarmes, we went to the dwelling to stable the property. Both to conclude off entry to the dwelling but additionally to make obvious no one could well presumably regain out, as an intervention modified into accomplished to make obvious no suspects remained within the dwelling.”

The mayor celebrated that crime modified into in most cases low within the dwelling, in conjunction with, “We've simplest had one burglary in a neighbourhod in years.”

Orcibal also acknowledged he had officiated the couple's 2023 marriage ceremony, whereby Callum played a assorted piece.

“No longer many people can roar they walked their very occupy mother down the aisle,” the actor wrote in September of that 365 days on Instagram., alongside a pic of himself, sporting a old fashioned Scottish kilt, escorting his mother. “What a pleasure!! I admire you mum. Congrats to Morning time and Andy on their very ultimate wedding day and here's to a large existence collectively for the satisfied couple.”

Andrew, who extinct to work as a financial fraud investigator, and Morning time each retired to France around 10 years within the past, the newspaper reported.

“They were British but they in point of fact wanted to integrate into native existence,” Orcibal acknowledged. “Yearly they invited extra than a hundred people for a drink at their home.”

The mayor persisted, “They had two pedigree dogs that they walked alongside the river each day. And every time they bumped up into someone, extra than a transient ‘bonjour’, they’d finish and discuss. They were very kind and courteous.”

Johan Herault, who runs a tour firm basically basically based within the dwelling, acknowledged the couple's deaths attain “as a grisly shock.”

“They were such lovely people,” he instantaneous the newspaper. “My considerable other modified into very factual chums with Morning time. She is from Contemporary Zealand and preferred speaking English with them. We in total went to peep them.”

Andrew, he acknowledged, “never talked about that he modified into in any effort,” in conjunction with, “That is an incredibly nonetheless and peaceable dwelling. It doesn't fabricate any sense.”