HOUSTON -- A man shot his wife then himself in their home in southwest Houston, leaving the couple's 2-year-old daughter alone for up to a day, police told KPRC Local 2.

Police said the husband's father led them to a home in the 11400 block of Newbrook Drive in the Leawood subdivision late Thursday.

Authorities said they found a man and woman's body in the living room. Police also found a semiautomatic pistol next to the man's body.

A 2-year-old girl was unharmed in the back bedroom.

According to authorities, the man's father went to the home to check on his son after not being able to reach him for a day. Detectives said the father went to the house, found it locked, broke a window to get inside and then found his son and daughter-in-law's bodies.

A next door neighbor said he is good friends with the deceased man's father and talked to him at the scene last night.

"He was just in shock. He had the little girl in his hands," said Moses Fonseca.  "I asked him what happened and he just said, 'They're gone. They're gone.'"

Fonseca said the couple moved into the house less than a week ago from Dallas.

"The house was owned by his father and their grandfather," said Fonseca. "The house had just been remodeled."

The Harris County Medical Examiner's office has not released the identities of the couple.

Police said the 2-year-old was taken to Texas Children's Hospital for observations and is staying with relatives.