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Los Angeles Times
National
Libor Jany

Former LAPD officer dies by apparent suicide after being charged with murder

A former Los Angeles police officer died by apparent suicide in jail a few days after being charged with murder in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend last week at their home in western Arizona, according to authorities and local news reports.

Julia Peat, 60, was found unresponsive in her cell in Mohave County Jail in Kingman, Ariz., around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Today's News-Herald in Lake Havasu City. Jail officials attempted to resuscitate her, but were not successful, the newspaper reported.

Peat was being held on first-degree murder charges in connection with the killing of Mark Corbett. The shooting happened Thursday in a home in Lake Havasu City, a community of nearly 60,000 on the Arizona-California state line. The 69-year-old Corbett was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering multiple gunshot wounds, according to the News-Herald.

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