Crime & Safety
Valley Double Homicide Likely a Murder-Suicide
According to police, a 53-year-old San Fernando Valley man shot and killed a woman before taking his own life.
SYLMAR, CA — A double shooting in Sylmar Thursday night appears to be a murder-homicide, police said on Friday.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, a man, Rene Vanegas, 53, shot and killed a woman before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life.
The shootings happened shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday in the 13000 block of Tucker Avenue, according to police. Officers arrived to find both dead at the scene.
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The victim's name was withheld, pending notification of her relatives. Police did not say what led up to the shootings nor what the victim's relationship to her killer was.
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