Man, 63, fatally shot friend of ex-wife before killing himself at home in Perth’s west, police say

Police believe the man was looking for his former wife at the house where he killed a 59-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter

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A man has shot and killed a woman and her teenaged daughter in a west Perth home before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide, police say.

The 63-year-old man is alleged to have gone to the house in Berkeley Crescent, Floreat just before 4.30pm on Friday looking for his ex-wife, who was not at the house.

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