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Port Arthur Police are investigating what led up to a man killing his wife at a bank drive-thru and then shooting himself. It happened at about 3:30 Saturday afternoon at Capitol One Bank on FM 365 Police said witnesses told them that the woman was sitting in her car when the man fired two shots into her head. Witnesses said he then got back in his own vehicle, drove a short distance on the parking lot, and then shot himself. According to police, the man was taken by ambulance to St Elizabeth Hospital where he died a few hours later. The names of the couple had not been released as of late Sunday morning. Meanwhile, a justice of the peace has ordered autopsies.