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Charleston officials identify shooting victims
Posted: 02.28.2013 at 5:05 PM
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The Charleston County Coroner's Office has released the names of a Kiawah Island man they say shot his wife and then himself.  / MGN
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The Charleston County Coroner's Office has released the names of a Kiawah Island man they say shot his wife and then himself.

Deputy Coroner Dottie Lindsay says 77-year-old Thomas Reese and 84-year-old Barbara Reese died in the shooting Wednesday morning.

Sheriff's Maj. Jim Brady says deputies were called to the home and found the couple lying in separate beds next to each other with gunshot wounds to the head.

A revolver was found on Thomas Reese's chest.

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