ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) --  A North Carolina police chief says a man shot his girlfriend and her five children _ killing the woman and two teens before shooting himself. 

Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper says the shooting happened Wednesday night after Maurice Laron Garner got into an argument with his girlfriend at the hospital where she worked.

Hooper said that the woman, 32-year-old Erica Nichelle Smith of Asheville, was killed. Her 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter also died. 

A 10-year-old boy who was grazed by a bullet called 911. An 8-year-old and 12-year-old also had non-life threatening injuries.

Hooper said it doesn't appear that Garner was the father of any of the children. She said he was found in a car nearby with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.