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"LINO LAKES, MN - A man shot his wife to death before killing himself Thursday at the woman’s home in Lino Lakes, authorities said today.

"Police identified the dead as Pamela Ann Taschuk, 48, and Allen Steven Taschuk, 51.

"At 10:47 p.m., a caller told a police dispatcher that a shooting had occurred at a house in the 400 block of Post Road, where Pamela Taschuk lived.

"When police arrived, they found the Taschuks dead, each of them shot once.

"Allen Taschuk no longer lived at the house and had been charged on Aug. 28 with false imprisonment and domestic assault, according to the police department. He had attacked his wife two days earlier, they said.

"On Sept. 9 Pamela Taschuk had received an order for protection that barred her husband from having contact with her or visiting the house, police said."

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