Man Shot Girlfriend, Killed Self at Franklin Apartment, Prosecutor Says
Authorities are calling Tuesday's shooting a murder-suicide.
The Tuesday shooting at a Franklin apartment complex that took the life of a man and a woman was a murder-suicide, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor's office. Manuel Rodriguez, 50, shot his live-in girlfriend of nine years, Wilma Diaz, 34, inside their apartment before taking his own life, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said. Diaz, who had been transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in critical condition earlier on Tuesday subsequently died, according to Soriano. An investigation by the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Squad and Crime Scene Investigations and Forensics Unit found that Rodriguez notified a family member to call police and come over to the apartment to pick up his 14-…
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