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The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass. www.enterprisenews.com By Maria Papadopoulos, ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER BROCKTON — Her close friend says Rosa Andrade moved to Arthur Paquin Way to start her life anew. But those dreams were shattered Sunday afternoon when a man believed to be Andrade’s estranged ex-boyfriend tracked down the single mother outside her apartment complex and shot her dead, then turned the gun on himself, on a street that witnesses said was teeming with children. “He always used to say, ‘I’m going to kill her one day and then I’m going to kill myself,’” Andrade’s close friend, Eugenia Marques, cried as she crouched down on the sidewalk across from the crime scene Sunday. Authorities would not identify the man who shot Andrade, the city’s tenth homicide, Sunday night. “She was shot in the head by a male who then shot himself. We are not releasing his name. It is unclear whether he will survive,” said Assistant District Attorney Bridget Norton Middleton. The man shot himself in the head after shooting Andrade, said Middleton. He was taken to an area hospital and then transferred to a Boston hospital, she said. His condition was not known Sunday night. Police responded to Arthur Paquin Way after receiving 911 emergency calls for shots fired at 4:47 pm Sunday. Authorities found Andrade, 39, and the man both shot and lying on pavement in a parking lot outside 337 Arthur Paquin Way, witnesses said. Jay Wooden of Brockton was visiting friends in the housing complex …

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