Search for motive in California murder-suicide (AP)

JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. – Investigators searched for a motive in an apparent murder-suicide that left a man and woman dead and forced the lockdown of a Southern California high school. No students were injured.

The shooting occurred about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday after a school resource officer who works for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department heard what he thought was a gunshot coming from the parking lot at Patriot High School in Jurupa, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Courtney Donowho. The school was immediately placed on a lockdown as sheriff’s investigators searched the campus.

The officer found a man and woman in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman, a bilingual education volunteer at the school, was pronounced dead at a hospital, the sheriff’s department said. Their identities have been withheld pending notification of relatives.

No students were unaccounted for and they were released in three phases

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