Authorities have released new details on Wednesday's murder-suicide in Brockton, Massachusetts, including the identities of the two people involved.
Two people were found dead at a home on North Main Street around 5:43 p.m. Wednesday. The Plymouth District Attorney's Office identified them Thursday as 18-year-old Yoraily Santos and 22-year-old Starli Roa Taveras.
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WATCH HEREThe district attorney's office said Brockton police received a 911 call from the landlord saying that his upstairs tenant had located the tenant's son and the son's girlfriend dead on the floor of their apartment.
Santos was found on the kitchen floor with multiple gunshot wounds. Taveras was found on the floor of a bedroom with what appeared to be a self-inflected gunshot wound to the head.
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A gun was located nearby, with an empty magazine and one 9mm round in the chamber. Nine shell casings and seven projectiles were also recovered from the apartment.
Investigators said they believe Taveras shot his girlfriend and then shot himself. Based on a review of video surveillance from inside and outside the apartment and statements made, they believe Santos and Taveras were the only two people inside the apartment at the time of they shooting. They also said they learned through witness interviews that the two had a relationship and there was a history of domestic violence.
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The district attorney's office said their investigation is ongoing.
