LANSING - A married couple were found dead Tuesday morning following what police believe was a murder-suicide that took place on a quiet residential street on Lansing’s near south side.

Lansing police on Tuesday afternoon identified the victims as Derrick Morell Smith, 47, and Adriann Lakisha Smith, 39.

A preliminary investigation indicates the tragedy stemmed from a "domestic situation," they said.

Officers were called to the 2700 block of Marion Avenue around 8:35 a.m. on a report of gunfire and heard dispatch reports that a man with a gun was chasing a woman, Lansing Police Public Information Director Robert Merritt said.

Dispatchers later relayed information that the couple were on Victor Avenue and that the man had just shot the woman and himself, he said.

The officers arrived to find Derrick Smith and Adriann Smith dead from apparent gunshot wounds.

Police believe the couple left a home on the 2700 block of Marion Avenue, but they were found dead on Victor about a block away, Merritt said.

"There was some sort of a domestic (incident) that led to people leaving the house and... ending up on Victor Avenue," he said.

Police believe Derrick Smith shot Adriann Smith before turning the gun on himself, Merritt said.

A gun was recovered at the scene, and police said there is no ongoing threat to the community.

The neighborhood is off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, south of Mt. Hope Avenue, in south Lansing.

Michael Morofsky said he was walking his dog nearby when a neighbor told him about the shooting.

“This is usually a real quiet neighborhood,” he said. “This is a shock to a lot of us.”

Morofsky said he’s lived in the Colonial Village neighborhood for 60 years and can’t recall a similar incident.

“I came down here, and I was aghast.”

The 2700 block of Marion and two blocks of Victor, immediately west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, were closed for part of Tuesday while investigators processed the scene.

Tuesday's shooting represents Lansing's 14th homicide this year, and first since Oct. 22.

In that incident, Diamond Wallace, 33, of Lansing, was found unresponsive inside a car that had crashed into a tree on the 600 block of West Lapeer Street. He later died at an area hospital.

An autopsy showed he died from a gunshot wound before crashing into the tree. Police have not made any arrests in connection with Wallace's death.

The city logged eight homicides in 2016.

Anyone with information about Tuesday's incident is asked to call Detective Sgt. Jeromy Churchill at 483-6816.

Ken Palmer contributed to this report.

Contact Christopher Haxel at 517-377-1261 or chaxel@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisHaxel.