IRVINE – A homicide investigation was under way Monday morning into the deaths of two people whose bodies were found inside a car on the top floor of an Irvine parking structure, police said.

Police received a call at 9:10 p.m. Sunday about a person slumped over in a parked car at 2100 Scholarship, Irvine Police Department spokeswoman Julia Engen said.

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Responding officers discovered the bodies of a male and female inside a car, she said, adding that they apparently had been shot.

The victims’ names were not immediately released.

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