Two bodies were found Tuesday in an apparent homicide-suicide after a woman’s ominous 911 call summoned officers to her Annapolis apartment, Anne Arundel police said.
Police received a call about 12:23 a.m. from a woman requesting they come to an apartment on the 600 block of Admiral Drive quickly or officers would “find two dead bodies,” said Sgt. John Gilmer, an Anne Arundel County police spokesman, who said the case was under Anne Arundel police’s jurisdiction because the apartment is outside the city of Annapolis.
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Officers arrived at the Harbour Gates Apartments within three minutes of the call, but no one answered the door, police said.
Inside the apartment’s master bedroom, police found an unresponsive 39-year-old man and 43-year-old woman with gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The man and woman lived together, but police would not say who shot whom first.
Police were withholding the names of the victims until their relatives could be notified.
The shooting went unnoticed by several Harbour Gates residents, who said Tuesday they were unaware of the incident until police cars surrounded the apartment complex.
“I didn’t hear gunshots or anything,” said resident Kevin Hillegas.
“I thought it must be drugs or something, because we get people knocking on doors hawking stuff, but never anything like this.”
Police found a gun in the apartment, but a motive was unknown Tuesday.
The bodies were taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore for autopsies.
