2 Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In Aurora: Police

AURORA, IL — Two people were killed in an apparent murder-suicide earlier this week on Aurora’s West Side, police said.

Officers were called around 3 p.m. Tuesday to do a welfare check at a home in the 1800 block of Sapphire Lane, where newspapers were starting to pile up, police said.

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Inside the home, officers found the bodies of a man and a woman who appeared to have died from gunshot wounds in a murder-suicide, police said.

The Kane County Coroner’s Office performed autopsies Wednesday, but the cause and manner of death have not yet been released.

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The Aurora Police Department is asking anyone with information to call its Investigations Division at 630-256-5500.

Check back to Patch.com for more updates to this developing story.

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