Murder-suicide claims City Council member in small-town Minnesota

The woman killed by her husband in what is being called a murder-suicide in their home near Mankato was on her town's City Council at the time of her death.

Autopsies revealed that Charles A. Hernandez, 60, of Good Thunder, strangled his wife, Kimberly K. Hernandez, 48, before he killed himself by suffocation, the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.

The Sheriff's Office has yet to offer a possible motive for the deaths. The bodies were found Friday in a bedroom in their home in the 800 block of Chapel Street. A relative called authorities after discovering the couple.

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