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Man suspected of fatally shooting wife dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound

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The family of the Portage man suspected of fatally shooting his wife last week, then turning the gun on himself, has had him removed from life-support, Portage Police said.

Miguel Contreras, 51, died over the weekend of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, at the Chicago-area hospital to which he’d been transferred from Methodist Hospital Northlake Campus in Gary, Sgt. Keith Hughes told the Chesterton Tribune today.

At 4:12 p.m. Wednesday, July 12, Contrares shot his wife, Maria Contrares, 45, multiple times at her home in the 3000 block of Edith Street, then shot himself, police said. Contrares was found deceased, in an opened rear sliding glass door, through which she was apparently trying to flee the house.

Contrares was found in a living room area.

Police said that the Contrares’ adult son arrived home from work to find his parents arguing and saw his father to be in possession of a handgun, police said. The son told his mother to leave the house and did so himself, then--as he was running to a neighbor’s to call 911--heard gunshots, police said.

Hughes said today that the Detective Bureau has completed its interviews in the case and is right now “finishing up some loose ends” but for all practical purposes the investigation is at an end.

 

Posted 8/17/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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