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Body found after suicidal man allegedly confesses murder

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas --Police in Texas recovered the body of a woman murdered woman Tuesday, the day after after a man allegedly confessed to murdering someone before shooting himself in a Texas parking lot,reports CBS affiliate KHOU.

Arlington police officers received a report of a disturbance at about 5 p.m. Monday at a La Quinta Inn & Suites and responding officers found an armed man barricaded inside his vehicle at a nearby parking lot. The man allegedly made threats and confessed to killing a woman in Grand Prairie, Texas, before he shot himself.

The following day, the body of a woman, who appeared to be in her 20s, was found in a wooded area in Grand Prairie.

The identities of the woman and man have not yet been released. It is not clear exactly when the woman was killed.

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