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Homicide Investigation Underway After Woman Found Dead In Pomona Residence

POMONA (CBSLA) - Authorities are investigating a shooting that took the life of a woman and critically injured a man at a Pomona home Thursday.

Officials with the Pomona Police Department were called to the home in the 400 block of West Franklin Avenue, around 12 p.m., and discovered a woman dead from an apparent gunshot wound inside the residence, according the department's Sgt. Iain Miller.

A search of the house revealed a man in the backyard who had also been shot, though was still alive. He was taken by paramedics to a hospital where he was listen in critical condition and, so far, "unable to speak to police."

A motive for the shooting is not known and there is currently no suspect description. Police said they do not believe the incident was a murder-suicide attempt.

The name of the female victim was not immediately released.

 

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