Two people have been found shot dead inside a Jersey City Heights home on Tuesday morning.

Jersey City police were at the scene by 7:10 a.m., and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Unit arrived a short time later, said Joe Shine, a freelance photographer who is at the scene.

The bodies -- a man and a woman -- were found at a Summit Avenue home between Sherman Place and Hutton Street in the Heights section of the city at 7 a.m.

Police have closed off Summit Avenue near the scene. Details were not immediately available.

A woman who lives across the street said this morning that a couple lived at the home, but she did not know them.

Journal Staff Writer Nicholas Zeitlinger contributed to this report.