Deaths thoughtto be murder/suicide

The victims' names were withheld pending notification of family members.

Lyon County sheriff's deputies said the bodies of a 21-year-old Stagecoach woman and her 34-year-old boyfriend were found in a car on Misfit Flats about three miles south of U.S. Highway 50.

Sheriff's Investigator Jim Cassell said they apparently died of gunshot wounds Friday evening, but their bodies weren't found on the large alkali flat until Saturday.

The victims had been dating for at least two months and the shootings could have resulted from a domestic dispute, he said.

"We don't know for sure, but that's our gut feeling at this time," he said. "It appears one killed the other before turning the gun on themselves."

Investigators sought to talk to friends of the victims to learn more about the two, Cassell said.

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