Police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on Wednesday.
Multiple police vehicles were at the scene on Wednesday afternoon, and a large, multi-story home had been cordoned off with yellow police tape.
Marlborough police were called to a report of a shooting on Rice Street shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said. When they arrived, they found two women and a child outside who explained that their female roommate had been shot inside the home.
Once inside, police said they found a 28-year-old woman who lived in the home and a 29-year-old man dead of apparent gunshot wounds. Officials have identified them as Kethlen Paula Alves Trindade DaRocha and Marlon Moreira Costa, both of Marlborough.
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Preliminary investigation suggests that the two people found dead inside the home had been in a dating relationship, and the man had threatened the woman at his home on Tuesday night, the district attorney said.
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The woman reportedly returned to her Rice Street home on Wednesday morning, and the man broke into her home around 10 a.m., threatened her again and then shot her and then himself.
“Unfortunately they had some personal problems,” said Junior Dantas, a friend of the victim. “They were arguing last night, then they were arguing this morning.”
DaRocha is from Brazil and has no family here.
“There were more people in the house when it happened” said Dantas. “Nobody else got injured, they were able to make it out.”
The investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by state and Marlborough police.
No further details were immediately available.
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