UPDATED Monday, July 16: Troopers ID woman, man killed in southern Oregon murder-suicide

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A Josephine County man killed his ex-girlfriend before killing himself Wednesday, troopers say.

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The Oregon State Police said troopers responded to a domestic disturbance in the Merlin area about 11 p.m. and found a passenger van in a driveway and the woman, its operator, dead.

The man was found in another vehicle about a mile away, troopers said. He died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

An investigation determined the man confronted the woman, killing her, and then killed himself, the state police said in a news release.

They said the man was the driver of the second vehicle.

The agency said no other information was available Thursday morning and that the names of the man and woman will be released once their families have been notified.

— Jim Ryan