Monrovia cops keep painful homicide quiet
Our blogging counterpart, Mr. Girardot at Crime Scene got a story on a terrible murder-suicide in Monrovia last week. I'd heard about this third-hand and asked him on Friday-- turned out to be true and worse than I'd thought.
MONROVIA - A man shot and killed his girlfriend in front of her children minutes before killing himself in the woman's apartment, authorities said Friday.
Christine Yvette Rodriguez, 35, of Monrovia died from a single gunshot wound to the head Monday, Los Angeles County coroner's Capt. Ed Winter said Friday.
She was the daughter of a former longtime Monrovia police dispatcher, authorities said.
Rodriguez's boyfriend, identified as Michael Machelle Wright, 30, also of Monrovia, died from a gunshot wound to the head, Winter said. The murder-suicide at a condo in the 800 block of West Walnut Avenue followed a loud domestic argument, officials said.
"We received a 9-1-1 call of shots fired," Monrovia police Lt. Mike Lee said. "It was a two-shot gunfight. He shot her and then shot himself."
Rodriguez's mother, Rosemary Guthrie of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was a longtime dispatcher for the Monrovia Police Department. Guthrie's husband, John, was an officer with the department for several years, Lee said.
"We have a personal connection to this case," Lee said.
Read the whole thing here. It's really, really sad.
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