A man has shot dead his former wife at a Southern California mall and then turned the gun on himself.
Police say the 33-year-old gunman was taken to a hospital on Saturday. The Ventura County Star newspaper reports that the Los Angeles-area resident is in critical condition.
Ventura County sheriff's Sergeant Eric Buschow says the man went to a store at The Oaks mall in the city of Thousand Oaks and argued with the 30-year-old woman before shooting her.
He says the couple's children are safe.
Buschow says initial indications show that the shooting was a murder and attempted suicide.
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