Man Shoots Girlfriend, Then Kills Himself
A North Hollywood man died Thursday morning after shooting and wounding a woman he lived with and then turning the gun on himself, Los Angeles police said.
Jerome Ceasar, 43, died at Holy Cross Medical Center at 5:40 a.m., about two hours after the shooting in his apartment in the 11500 block of Magnolia Boulevard, Detective Ray Hernandez said.
Police said Ceasar and a 28-year-old roommate were arguing about their relationship when Ceasar shot the woman in the arm. The woman fled and Ceasar shot himself in the head, police said.
The woman, whose identity was not released, was treated at North Hollywood Medical Center and released.
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