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Police responded to Sheridan Avenue at 6:22 p.m., on reports of shots fired where they found a woman suffering gunshot wounds, Police Director Sheilah A. Coley said.
The woman was identified as Cheryl Jones, 65. She was pronounced dead at the scene while the suspect, Clent Morris, was taken to a hospital for treatment of a wound on his eye, authorities said.
Morris and the victim apparently knew each other and have gotten into arguments in the past, police said.
Detectives with the Mercer County Homicide Task Force was investigating.
Victim information was not being released.
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