A woman was shot and a man is dead in an apparent suicide in a domestic incident near a Horizon West area school on Tuesday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded around 2:30 p.m. to the 14000 block of Sonco Avenue near Keene’s Crossing Elementary School and found a woman with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries but was in stable condition as of Wednesday morning, the sheriff’s office said.
The suspect, 67-year-old Richard Stoner, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when deputies entered the home he was in Tuesday evening. Deputies had spent hours calling out for Stoner to leave the home prior to entering, the agency said.
The sheriff’s office declined to clarify the relationship between the suspect and the victim or where the shooting occurred in relation to the home.