In the ninth apparent murder-suicide in the Portland area in the past year, two bodies were found dead outside an apartment in Tigard, near King City.
Police said Jeffrey M. Njus, 35, fatally shot his wife, 32-year-old Ilona Njus, outside their home at the Arbor Heights apartments, 15199 S.W. Royalty Parkway, Tuesday night.
After that, police believe, he turned the gun on himself.
Neighbors called police at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night after hearing four to five gunshots and screaming.
Police arrived a few minutes later and discovered the Njus’ dead in a third-floor breezeway just outside their apartment.
Ilona Njus’ mother witnessed the shooting, police said, and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter was asleep in the apartment at the time.
Neither the grandmother nor the child was injured. The child was placed in the care of relatives, police said.
Investigators have yet to release a possible motive for the shooting, there was a chance that Jeffrey Njus was suffering from a mental illness, police said.
The couple had recently moved to the apartment from Aloha, police said. The investigation is ongoing.
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