Friday, June 5, 2009

From Niesha Lofing:

An El Dorado Hills man wounded in what is believed to have been a murder-suicide this weekend has died of his injuries.

Sean Paul Rioux, 32, died at 10:55 a.m. Sunday of a gunshot wound to the head, a Sacramento County Coroner's official said this morning.

Rioux had been in critical condition at UC Davis Medical Center after the shooting Saturday night.

Residents of the Valley View Apartments at 2100 Valley View Parkway called 911 around 6:15 p.m. Saturday about gunshots, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies who responded found Cecilia Rivera, 27, of El Dorado Hills, who died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, a sheriff's news release states.

Deputies also found Rioux, Rivera's estranged husband, with a gunshot wound to his head, said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Bryan Golmitz.

The shootings are believed to be an isolated incident between the couple, who had a history of domestic violence, Golmitz said.

The shooting was the first homicide of the year in El Dorado County.

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