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Newport News husband, wife dead in ‘domestic-related’ shooting

Police were sent to the 500 block of Ashton Green Boulevard at around 3:54 p.m. Wednesday (HNNDaily photo/Courtesy of Newport News Police)
Police were sent to the 500 block of Ashton Green Boulevard at around 3:54 p.m. Wednesday (HNNDaily photo/Courtesy of Newport News Police)

NEWPORT NEWS — Police here said the death of a husband and wife Wednesday afternoon appears to be “domestic-related.”

Authorities identified the couple as 45-year-old Natacha Rodriguez-Cruz and her husband, Marcos Vasquez, 41.

Very few details have been released about the incident. Police would only say the couple died of gunshot wounds, and “the public is not in danger.”

Police were sent to the 500 block of Ashton Green Boulevard at around 3:54 p.m. Wednesday.

There, they found the couple “with gunshot wounds.”

At 4:28 p.m., both Rodriguez-Cruz and Vasquez were pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police news release.

Police said the investigation remains open.

Julia Marsigliano
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Julia Marsigliano is a multimedia reporter for WYDaily. She covers everything on the Peninsula from local government and law enforcement agencies to family-run businesses and weather updates. Before WYDaily, she covered Hampton and Newport News for WYDaily’s sister publication, HNNDaily before both publications merged in December 2018. Julia was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to Long Island, New York in 2001. A true New Yorker, she loves pizza, bagels and good Chinese food. Send comments, tips and other tidbits to julia@localvoicemedia.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @jmarsigliano

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