HOUSTON – An investigation is underway after two people were found dead in southeast Houston, police said.
It's been an emotional scene at the home as family members found out it was their loved ones killed inside the home on Dewberry near MLK and the South Loop.
The family said the woman who was killed was 47-year-old Loretta Alexander, and police said the man is 48-year-old Michael Williams.
Alexander is a mother of three kids.
Alexander's daughter has a message for the killer.
"My mama don't bother no body, she always happy to help anybody. They took my mama away from me," Ashley Alexander said. "Man, I hope you rot. You took my mama away. You took a good person out this world."
Robert Smith walked up to the home Thursday morning, hoping to visit his friend.
Instead, he opened the front door to find Williams' body on the floor.
"And I went into that house. I saw him on his back and her on that sofa. Both of them with gunshot wounds to the head," Smith said.
Smith says Williams wasn't the friend he was seeking, but was someone he knew.
"I couldn't believe it. I stood over their bodies," Smith said.
Smith says Williams and Alexander were in a relationship.
Police believe the crime happened late Wednesday night, but they didn't get called to the scene until Thursday morning.
Detectives believe the crime was committed by a third party.
Ebony Simon is now heartbroken. She says she knows Williams. She's known him all her life.
"I feel sad because I'm not going to see him anymore. Because he wasn't a bad person to me or to my family," Simon said.
She said she still can't believe he's gone.
"Is it him? Is it really him? I just wanted to know if it's true or if it's really him," Simon said.
Simon says that Williams had to be ambushed in the middle of the night, because he always had his guard up.
"Whoever did it, they did it off guard," Simon said.
She says it's a sad day, not just for her, but for the entire neighborhood.
"We love him. We know him. We know how he is. And we know it's not nobody over here. It had to be somebody from somewhere else that came over here and done that," Simon said.
Investigators initially believed the crime was a murder-suicide, but have since ruled out that assumption.
"Originally that's what I thought it probably was, but, no, I don't think it's going to be a murder-suicide," Detective Kelly McDonald said.
Officers say they were actually at the home just hours before for a disturbance call, but they are still determining if it's related.
Police say they need your help in finding out more about what happened.
If you have any information, you're asked to call Houston Police or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.