By Associated Press - Thursday, April 29, 2021

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) - Two people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Goodyear and Phoenix, authorities said Thursday.

Goodyear police said it appears a woman fatally shot her ex-boyfriend and later took her own life.

Police were called to the Goodyear home of 41-year-old Todd Vermillion on Tuesday after his family did a welfare check and found him dead from a gunshot wound.

After police began investigating, they developed probable cause that Vermillion’s ex-girlfriend was involved.

A SWAT team served a search warrant Wednesday at the Phoenix apartment of 37-year-old Lisa Couty and reported finding her dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Phoenix police are investigating Couty’s death while Goodyear police continue the investigate Vermillion’s death.

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