From Chelsea Phua and Bill Lindelof:
The suspect and victim in a fatal shooting late Thursday in Folsom may have had a dating relationship, a police spokesman said today.
The hostage situation in ended Thursday night in what police say they suspect was a murder-suicide.
Two bodies - one of a man in his 40s and a woman - were found inside a condominium in the 200 block of Wales Drive after a two hours-plus hostage standoff, Folsom police department officials said.
Police Department spokesman Officer Jason Browning said the pair may be in a dating relationship or have previously dated. It's not clear what prompted Thursday night's incident, but Browning said police have responded to the same address last month for a "domestic type issue" involving the same people. It does not appear that violence was involved in last month's incident, Browning said.
Police said today that the man was found with a gunshot wound to his head in the bedroom and a gun was found in the same room. The woman, whose body was found on a patio, had been shot several times.
The standoff began shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday at the Cobblestone Place complex after neighbors reported hearing gunshots, Browning said.
As officers were on route to the scene, a neighbor reported that she saw a woman trying to leave her condominium through the rear patio, but was pulled back into the unit by a man, Browning said. The neighbor then heard multiple shots fired inside the condominium, Browning said.
Folsom police's SWAT and hostage negotiation teams responded to the complex. Attempts to contact the people inside were unsuccessful, police officials said. Nearby residents were told to evacuate the area or stay locked inside their residences, police said.
Shortly after 11 p.m., after activating a sound grenade to determine activity inside the darkened two-story condominium, SWAT team members entered the unit and found the bodies, the woman downstairs and the man upstairs in the master bedroom on a bed, police said.
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