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Police say they found Eilleen and Terry Lyon dead dead in the couple's Midvale home on Tuesday morning.

The case is suspected to be a murder-suicide; autopsy results are pending.

Neighbors describe the couple as loving; no domestic violence history was known.

MIDVALE — Police believe a Midvale husband shot and killed his wife before fatally shooting himself.

About 11:10 a.m. Tuesday, Unified police were called to perform a welfare check on the residents at 7533 S. Jefferson Street. When officers gained access inside the home, the bodies of Eilleen Lyon, 65, and Terry Wayne Lyon, 63, were discovered.

"Preliminary investigation indicates the female victim, Eilleen Lyon, sustained a gunshot wound, and the male suspect, Terry Lyon, appears to have died from a self-inflicted

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