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A woman was fatally shot Tuesday night in a residential area of West Hollywood in what may have been a murder-suicide. City News Service reports that authorities are investigating whether the woman's murder may be linked to the suicide of man who was found dead later that night in a vehicle parked about a mile away.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was shot in her upper torso at approximately 8:43 p.m. Tuesday on Rosewood Avenue near Robertson and Beverly boulevards. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to the call and pronounced her dead at the scene, according to a statement from the department.
Detectives are also on scene of a possible suicide at 3rd/Croft that is related to #Weho murder. @CBSLA @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/0eHZxDq8iV
— Jon Baird (@KNXBaird) April 19, 2017
A little over an hour later, a man was found dead in a car parked on South Croft Avenue just east of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. ABC 7 reports that the man was found in the driver's seat of a rented SUV dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. ABC 7 reports that the deceased, who were both in their 20s, may have been a recently broken up couple, although Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff's Information Bureau told LAist that she didn't yet have any information on whether or not detectives were connecting the cases.
