2 killed at Illinois truck stop in apparent murder-suicide

OAKWOOD, Ill. (AP) - Authorities have released the identities of two people who died in an apparent murder-suicide at a truck stop in the eastern Illinois village of Oakwood.

Vermilion County Coroner Peggy Johnson said in a news release Thursday that 47-year-old Ell C. Hoffman of nearby Homer was shot multiple times Wednesday night. Urbana resident Douglas F. Price, who was 69, was shot in the head.

Sheriff Pat Hartshorn earlier told The (Champaign) News-Gazette (http://bit.ly/1LU2kDQ) that the woman worked at the truck stop and was shot by a man believed to be her estranged husband while she sat in her vehicle during a work break. The man then shot himself.

Oakwood is about 25 miles east of Urbana.

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Information from: The News-Gazette, http://www.news-gazette.com