INDEPENDENCE, Ky. — A third person has died after a murder-suicide in northern Kentucky late Sunday.
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Police in Independence, Kentucky, were called to Taylor Ridge Apartments shortly before 11:30 p.m. for reports of a shooting, our news partners at WCPO reported.
Officers found a man identified as 33-year-old Daylon Bradford outside with a gunshot wound.
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The suspect, 34-year-old Donald Bryant, was armed and had run into a nearby wooded area with a woman.
Police said they were searching for Bryant and the woman when they heard roughly eight gunshots.
Monday morning, police found Bryant and 24-year-old Heavan Gilson dead in the wooded area from gunshot wounds.
Police believe Bryant shot and killed Glison before he died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Bradford was taken to an area hospital, but he died on Monday.
Authorities are working to learn what led up to the shooting.
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