By Associated Press - Monday, June 29, 2020

SEATTLE (AP) - A man shot and killed a 42-year-old woman in her Northeast Seattle home, police said.

Someone called 911 at about 1:40 p.m. Monday and reported that a man had a gun, the Seattle Police Department said on their website.

Officers found a woman with a gunshot wound in the home and medics declared her dead at the scene, police said.



Police began searching for the man she had previously been dating. At about 2:45 p.m. police say they received a report of a person who had shot himself while on a bench in the Washington Park Arboretum.

The man was the person officers were looking for, according to police. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries, police said.

Police are investigating. No further information has been released.

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