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Police tape is seen Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 around a home in the 1600 block of Spanish Bay Drive in north Redding.(Photo: David Benda/Record Searchlight)

Update, 12:45 p.m. Wednesday:

The Shasta County Coroner's Office on Wednesday identified the husband and wife at the center of a Redding police murder-suicide investigation.

Officials identified the husband as 79-year-old Edwin Pehr Fredrickson and the wife as 62-year-old Elizabeth Ann Fredrickson.

A "postmortem examination" will be scheduled, according to the coroner's office.

The case remains under investigation by the Redding Police Department.

Original story: Redding police say a man awaiting trial for domestic violence charges killed his wife early Tuesday morning in a north Redding neighborhood.

The man died at a hospitalafter having stabbed himself and being shot by a police stun gun, according to the a news release from the Redding Police Department.

Police have yet to release the identities of either person involved. They said officers had previouslyresponded to the home nine times since 2018, with three of those incidents ending in the husband's arrest on suspicion of domestic violence, according to RPD.

This time, officers responded to the home on the 1600 block of Spanish Bay Drivearound 2:18 a.m. after a family member said they got a voicemail from the husband saying he killed his wife and planned to kill himself.

When police showed up, the husband didn't cooperate, armed himself with a knife and made statements indicating he wanted to die, according to police. At the time, other officers went to the back of the home to look for the wife, finding her dead on the living room floor with "obvious signs of trauma," according to the release.

The husband saw officers in the home and moved toward them "while stabbing himself." Police shot him with a stun gun and detained him before providing medical attention. An ambulance brought the husband to Mercy Medical Center where he later died, according to police.

Inside the home, police said they found hand-written notes from the husband confessing to killing his wife.

RPD Sgt. Danny Smetak said the man had last been arrested about a month and a half ago.

Police said the exact causeof death for both are unknownand that autopsies will be conducted in the near future.

A crime scene investigation vehicle is parked Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 in front of a home in the 1600 block of Spanish Bay Drive in north Redding.(Photo: David Benda/Record Searchlight)

Several agencies, including the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, Shasta County District Attorney's Office and Anderson Police Department assisted with the crime scene, according to police. Anyone with information is asked to call RPD at 530-225-4200.

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