Crime & Safety
Coroner IDs Couple Killed In Apparent Murder-Suicide
A 67-year-old man and 69-year-old woman were found dead from gunshot wounds last week inside their Aurora home.
AURORA, IL — Two people killed in an apparent murder-suicide last week in Aurora were identified Monday by the Kane County Coroner’s Office.
Lee Bell, 67, and Sharon Bell, 69, were found dead from gunshot wounds last week inside their home on Aurora’s West Side, the coroner’s office said.
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Officers were called around 3 p.m. Dec. 22 to do a welfare check at a home in the 1800 block of Sapphire Lane, where newspapers were starting to pile up, police said.
Police said last week they believed the Bells were married and estranged from their families, the Daily Herald reports.
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