By Associated Press - Monday, October 10, 2016

GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) - Officials say a man and a woman are both in critical condition after a domestic-related double shooting in Germantown.

Montgomery County police say officers responded to a home around 8 a.m. Sunday after getting a call from a woman who said she had been shot by her husband.

Authorities say the woman also told police that her husband shot himself.

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Police say both were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Their identities have not been released.

Officials say the shooting happened just hours after officers made a visit to the same home. Authorities say around 6 a.m., the husband called police saying that he wanted his wife removed from the residence.

Arriving officers determined that there was no physical fight and the wife said she would leave.

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