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Police arrest man they say fatally shot wife

By Associated Press
Published: August 12, 2019, 9:00am

PROSSER — Authorities in Benton County have arrested a 55-year-old man suspected in the shooting death of his 51-year-old wife.

KEPR reports that Silvestre Rojas Fuentes was apprehended in the Union Gap area around 8:15 p.m. Sunday.

Fuentes was booked into Benton County Corrections Facility facing charges of first-degree murder.

Police say the body of the woman was discovered at a home near Prosser.

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