PANORAMA CITY : Man Kills Ex-Lover, Himself at Work

A Panorama City woman was shot to death Friday morning in El Rio by a former lover, a Simi Valley man who then killed himself, Ventura County sheriff’s investigators said.

The murder-suicide occurred about 6 a.m., after Raymond Duran, 32, and Kimberley Haddock, 29, arrived separately at Frontier Building Supply Co. on Vineyard Avenue, where both worked. Haddock was apparently about to open a locked gate in the parking lot when she was shot three times with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, Sheriff’s Lt. Joseph Harwell said. Duran then fired a single shot into the right side of his head.

“There was obviously a disagreement that would spark something like this,” the lieutenant said. “We can only surmise that it had something to do with trying to get her marriage back together and rejecting him.”

Haddock had worked at Frontier for six months as office supervisor, Harwell said, and she had recently ended a brief affair with Duran, who was the company’s yard supervisor. Harwell said Haddock was still living with her husband, whose name was not released. The couple had no children.