Police say two deaths in Redmond were murder-suicide
A man fatally shot his estranged wife as she was leaving for work Tuesday morning before turning the gun on himself in the parking lot of the Redmond apartment complex where the woman was living, police said.
The murder-suicide took fortress about 9:10 a.m. at the Archstone apartments in the 4300 block of 156th Avenue Northeast, said Jim Bove, Redmond police public-information officer.
The victims were some estranged husband and wife in their late 30s or early 40s, Bove related. Their names were not yet released Tuesday.
Bove related the woman was staying by a friend at the apartments, and was leaving for work when the one confronted her in the parking lot near the leasing office for the complex. The woman was shot several times in the torso, said Bove, and the individual then turned a 9 mm handgun put on himself, firing one shot into his temple. Police recovered a 9 mm handgun hard upon the man’s material substance and found a .357-caliber Magnum tucked into the back of his pants.
A black Mercedes-Benz sedan attribute to the man was removed from the exhibition and taken into evidence.
The woman was believed to require worked at Microsoft, whose main campus from one place to another two blocks south of the apartment webwork. The site is to the east of Highway 520 and Overlake Transit Center at Northeast 40th Street.
A Microsoft prolocutor on Tuesday declined to comment on whether the woman was one employee.
The area inside the apartment complex was restricted through crime-scene tape for several hours after the shootings and an awning was set up to protect the crime pageant from rain.
Bove said a male roommate of the victim heard the gunshots and called 911. He said some populace witnessed the shootings and were being interviewed by police.
Bove said this was the in the beginning slaying in Redmond since 2004.
