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Lake Villa Twp. shooting a murder-suicide attempt

A shooting in Lake Villa Township that left one man dead and a woman injured was an attempted murder-suicide, Lake County coroner's office officials said Monday.

An autopsy performed late Monday afternoon on Gordon D. Olsen, 52, of the 36000 block of North Lawrence Court indicated that he shot himself after shooting his wife twice leaving her in critical condition, Lake County Coroner Artis Yancey said.

“The incident remains under investigation,” Yancey said. “But it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and part of an attempted murder-suicide.”

Lake County sheriff's officials were summoned to the house around 4 p.m. Sunday by a pair of 911 calls reporting a domestic incident with shots fired, said Wayne Hunter, the office's chief administrator.

Olsen was found dead inside the house from an apparent gunshot wound, Hunter said, and a 49-year-old woman was found outside the house on the front step suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

The woman was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville and was on life support late Sunday, Hunter said.

The first of the calls is believed to have come from the woman after she had been shot, Hunter said, and the second came from a 21-year-old man who was inside the house at the time.