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Police are investigating what appears to be an attempted murder/suicide shooting in Eagle-area subdivision

Eagle Police are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another badly injured at a home in the Wedgewood Estates subdivision early Thursday morning.

Eagle Police were sent to report of shots fired inside a home in the Chinden Blvd./ S. Locust Grove Road area just after midnight.

Police arrived to find 46-year-old man Matthew Rissell deceased and an adult woman badly injured. Both were known to each other.

Paramedics transported the woman to a local hospital where she’s being treated for what appear to be life-threatening injuries.

No one else was injured in the incident. There is no active threat to public safety.

The Ada County Coroner has determined Rissell’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of his death was a suicide.

Detectives are working to figure out what happened. Initial information and evidence indicates Rissell shot the woman and then shot himself.

The case is still under active investigation.