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Two wounded, shooter dead in Camden

A domestic dispute that started early Saturday morning in Pennsauken left a woman and her father hospitalized in Camden and the woman's ex-boyfriend dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Camden County police said.

A domestic dispute that started early Saturday morning in Pennsauken left a woman and her father hospitalized in Camden and the woman's ex-boyfriend dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Camden County police said.

At 3:45 a.m., a woman called her father after finding her tires were flat. Once her father arrived, they began to drive off. However, police said, the woman's ex-boyfriend Marques Johnson, 23, of Pennsauken, pulled up alongside them near the corner of Baird Boulevard and Marlton Pike in Camden.

Police said Johnson fired a shotgun through the passenger side of the victim's car, hitting his ex-girlfriend in the head and her father in the leg. The father managed to drive straight to Cooper University Hospital. The woman was in critical condition, the father in stable condition. Police did not release the names of the victims.

After the shooting, police said, Johnson fled to South Camden. Officer Matthew Krol attempted to stop Johnson for driving through a red light. Johnson eluded police and drove to Cooper, stopping in a hospital parking lot. Police said in their statement that Johnson "fatally shot himself in the head as he sat inside his vehicle as the officers approached."

Camden County police said that no one else was injured and that the case was still under investigation.