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Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

LA Police: Man kills 16-year-old girlfriend, self

The Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES -- Police say a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who investigators believe shot his teenage girlfriend has died at a hospital after shooting himself in the chest.

Police spokesman Officer Gregory Baek (behk) said Saturday that Juan Carlos Mendez shot 16-year-old girlfriend Maria Valderrama in the back of the head Friday night after an argument in their apartment in the city's Lincoln Heights neighborhood northeast of downtown.

Baek says Mendez initially fled but stopped about a block away and shot himself.

Police found him wounded in an alley and took him to County-USC medical center where he was declared dead later Friday night.

Baek says the pair had been dating for about two years.

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