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2 people found dead in Corbin hospital parking lot identified by police

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UPDATE: August 5 at 10:45 a.m.
The Corbin Police Department has identified the two people found dead in a car in the Baptist Health Hospital parking lot late Friday night.

According to CPD, the two have been identified as 35-year-old Shonda Parker and 39-year-old Michael Salisbury.

Corbin police say the incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

Original Story:
Police are investigating after two people were found dead in Corbin late Friday night.

Around 11:30 p.m., Corbin Police officers were called to Baptist Health Hospital to inspect a car in the parking lot.

According to police, a man and woman were found in the car, both of them with gunshot wounds.

They were both pronounced dead by medical staff on the scene.

The bodies have been sent to the Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office to identify the cause of their deaths.

Investigators believe whatever did happen was confined to inside the vehicle and that no hospital staff or civilians were in any danger.

The identities of the deceased have not been released at this time.