By Harry Harris and Sean Maher
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 01/26/2010 02:53:06 PM PST
Updated: 01/26/2010 03:23:29 PM PST
OAKLAND — A man police say shot and killed his girlfriend and then shot himself Friday died of his wounds Monday afternoon, investigators said.
Marlon King, 45, died at Highland Hospital around 5:30 p.m. Monday, police said. He had been hospitalized since shortly after killing his girlfriend, Aprile Moore, 46, inside the home they shared in the 2500 block of 67th Avenue, investigators added.
King committed the homicide-suicide after texting and calling friends and relatives about what he intended to do, investigators said.
Sgt. Mike Gantt said King had been fired from his warehouse job at a Hayward company earlier Friday after damaging a valuable piece of equipment.
Gantt said today that police have found a suicide note inside a notebook in the bedroom of the home where King and Moore were found.
Police said that Moore and King had been together at least three years but had a history of domestic violence problems and that officers had been at the house several times in the past.
Moore worked as a home care provider, police said. Word of memorial services for her was being kept private today.
Contact Harry Harris at hharris@bayareanewsgroup.com and Sean Maher at smaher@bayareanewsgroup.com.
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