SHAFTSBURY,Vermont— The bodies of two men were found at a Shaftsbury home Friday afternoon,

Vermont State Police

said.

The Bennington Banner reported that Orlanda Fitz, 28, and Trevor Gardner, 38, were found shot to death at a Shaftsbury Hollow Road home just after noon. A State Police spokesman said investigators believe the deaths are the result of a murder-suicide.

Police said they were called to the 600 block of Shaftsbury Hollow Road at 12:30 p.m. on Friday and found the body of Fitz in the front yard of the home, and Gardner's body in a pickup truck parked elsewhere on the property.

The bodies were removed to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for a formal determination of cause of death.

Fitz was facing trial on charges of cocaine and heroin trafficking. Police said they had received information that Fitz was selling crack cocaine and heroin in Bennington and in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. just over the state line. He was also accused of assaulting a woman with a firearm.

He was scheduled for trial in Vermont Superior Court following his arraignment in July on charges of first-degree aggravated domestic assault and battery with a weapon, cocaine trafficking and reckless endangerment.