COVINA, Calif. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the woman was shot and
wounded multiple times in the head and shoulder in her apartment in
Covina east of Los Angeles on Saturday morning and was airlifted to
County-UCLA Medical Center. He describes her condition as stable
and says it's "remarkable" that she survived.
Whitmore says deputies evacuated surrounding apartments and
tried to contact the man for several hours.
He says a SWAT team entered the apartment at 3:30 p.m. and found
the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The couple's names have not been released.
Covina is a suburb 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
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