Two teens dead in Columbus in apparent murder-suicide

Credit: COLUMBUS POLICE DEPARTMENT

Credit: COLUMBUS POLICE DEPARTMENT

Two teens are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Columbus.

Officers responded just after 10:30 p.m. Friday to the 4000 block of Raft Lane in southeast Columbus on a report of a shooting, our media partner WBNS-TV reported.

Officers found two gunshot victims in an upstairs bedroom. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

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They were identified as Veronica Madison Lee and Loren F.T. Williamson, both 19.

Columbus police said they were involved in a relationship, and that evidence at the scene indicates that Williamson shot and killed Lee before taking his own life, WBNS reported.

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