The most alarming detail is the shooting happened inside a county building.

REPORTS OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER

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Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office was surrounded by law enforcement Tuesday afternoon after a fatal shooting took place inside the facility.

Reports came in around 4:45 p.m of an active shooter. Law enforcement quickly surrounded the building. According to officials, a 51-year-old man had reportedly walked into the medical examiner's building and opened fire at a very specific person.

FEMALE EMPLOYEE SHOT AND KILLED

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The shooter went in and shot a 46-year-old female employee who, according to Dallas County commissioner, John Wiley Price, was a deputy medical examiner. Tragically, the woman shot was the shooter's wife.

"Dr. Bernard, who is our director, said there was a husband and wife incident, and that the doctor who worked for us had been killed and that apparently her husband then killed himself," Price said.

HUSBAND AND WIFE MURDER-SUICIDE

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The man went into the building, shot his wife, then immediately shot himself, killing them both. The startling part is how the man got inside the building with a lethal weapon.

OPENING AN INVESTIGATION

The Dallas County Medical Examiners' office has tight security; it is unknown how the man got a gun inside. "That building is a lot more secure than that, so I don't know if she let him in," Price said.

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Investigators are diligently working on how the man successfully breached security. Authorities did confirm the couple was estranged and both were employees of the county. 

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