Police say shooting that left two dead in Nova Scotia was a murder-suicide

LAKE ECHO, N.S. – Police have confirmed that a Nova Scotia shooting that left two people dead on Saturday night was a murder-suicide.

RCMP Cpl. Scott MacRae says police responded to a call just after 8 p.m. to a house on Ponderosa Drive in Lake Echo.

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He says police found a 47-year-old woman just inside the premises.

Police didn’t go in again until just after midnight when the house was secured.

MacRae says police then found the body of a 50-year-old man.

Both died of gunshot wounds.