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.