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Police: Woman, 32, fatally shot in Southwest Philly murder-suicide

The bodies of the woman and man were found inside a residence in the 2600 block of South 67th Street.

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A 32-year-old woman was killed by a 30-year-old man who then fatally shot himself Wednesday in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia, police said.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m. police responded to the 2600 block of South 67th Street and found the body of a woman in a front bedroom of a residence with a gunshot wounded to her right eye. The body of a man with a gunshot wound to the right side of his head was also in the bedroom. Both were pronounced dead by medics.

Police secured a gun as evidence at the scene.

The bodies were first discovered by a 56-year-old female cousin of the deceased woman, police said.