BERLIN — The city’s police department is looking inward at its own practices and procedures in the wake of the July 6 murder-suicide of a restaurant manager and her husband.
Sandra Marisol Fuentes Huaracha, 25, manager of Mexican restaurant La Casita, died by gunshot after husband Michael Gleason Jr., 50, shot her and then killed himself in the La Casita restaurant at 4 Hillside Ave. on Sunday morning, July 6.
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