An 85-year-old woman and her husband, 86, were both killed in a shooting at a veterans cemetery in Delaware on Friday morning.
Delaware State Police on Friday night identified the victims as a married couple from Elkton, Maryland.
Police say they later discovered the 29-year-old suspect, named as Sheldon C. Francis, dead from a gunshot wound a few hours later in a wooded area.
It is not known if the gunman knew his victims.
Gov. John Carney said: 'To think of a situation like that on that facility is just heartbreaking...the final resting place of the men and women who served our country.'
The state-owned cemetery is overseen by the Office of Veterans Services, a division of the Delaware Department of State.
The elderly couple were at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear, pictured
It was not immediately clear whether the suspect shot himself or was hit by police in the earlier exchange of gunfire, police said.
No officers were injured in the shooting.
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