Cleveland journalist Nikki Delamotte has died as a result of his gunshot and suicide wounds.

Nikki Delamotte, Cleveland's well-respected young reporter, found dead with his uncle in his caravan, died of multiple gunshot wounds in an alleged murder-suicide, authorities said Wednesday.

Police in Perrysburg, Ohio, about 150 km from Cleveland, found both bodies on Monday morning after Nikki Delamotte's mother reported her disappearance and drove by car. She found her daughter's car parked in front of the trailer, her phone and wallet still inside.

An autopsy showed that Nicole Delamotte had three gunshot wounds: left chest, right side and head. His uncle, Robert J. Delamotte, 67, was found dead from a bullet in the head and appeared to be self-inflicted, police said Wednesday.

Surveillance footage from Robert Delamotte's home showed that no other person had entered or left the residence after Nicole's arrival, police said. A Ruger caliber .380 semi-automatic pistol and a .38 Taurus caliber revolver were found at his home, the police said. Only the revolver seemed to have been fired.

Investigators consider the case as a murder-suicide, but have not yet determined mobile.

Nicole Delamotte, 30, had only recently contacted his paternal uncle after losing contact with him when his parents divorced, his mother, JoAnne Ullman, told NBC News on Tuesday.

Delamotte had planned to watch a football match with his uncle at a bar near his home in Perrysburg Township on Sunday night. But she never came home.

After the recent death of her maternal grandmother, "Nikki tried to reconnect with the little family left behind and did some detective work to find his uncle Bob on his father's side," Ullman said.

"None of us had seen her in the last 20 years, and they connected on October 13 after a commemorative lunch for my mother and talked on the phone," she added.

"I know Nikki was really excited about reconnecting with his uncle," said his good friend Brandi McElhatten on Tuesday. "None of us knows what happened, we just want to know what happened to our friend."

Delamotte had covered the Cleveland cultural scene for several websites, most recently Cleveland.com, and had written the book "100 things to do in Cleveland before dying".

Entrepreneurs, artists, musicians and dozens of other Cleveland people who knew Delamotte while she was covering the city expressed their sorrow after announcing her death on Monday.

A vigil for Delamotte was scheduled for Thursday and a GoFundMe page created to help her boyfriend and mother cover the costs of the memorial had raised more than $ 15,000 Wednesday morning.