5 dead in apparent murder-suicide

Police in South Florida were investigating five deaths Friday in what they believe to be a murdersuicide.

Miami-dade police officers responded to a Miami Lakes home Friday morning after a relative requested a welfare check because she had been unable to contact the occupants, a news release said.

Officers entered the residence through a rear window and found three women and two men dead from apparent gunshot wounds, officials said. The wounds of one man appeared to be self-inflicted, leading investigators to believe the case was a murder-suicide.

Police didn’t immediately release the names or ages of the deceased or a motive.