Man accused of killing woman outside Gwinnett job found dead

DULUTH, Ga. - The man accused of killing a woman outside her workplace in Duluth is dead, according to police.

What we know:

The Gwinnett County Police Department said Eliajia Whitley, 21, was shot and killed Friday afternoon by her ex-boyfriend , Caprice Hudson, 23. Officers found Whitley in her car with a gunshot wound outside the BioLife Plasma Services center along Pleasant Hill Road, where she worked. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said investigators later tracked Hudson to Columbia County, Georgia, after the shooting. Sheriff’s deputies there found his vehicle and attempted to stop it. A chase followed and ended with a PIT maneuver, but when deputies approached the car, they found Hudson dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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