The scene of a house explosion on Ashley Drive in Montgomery County, seen on March 20. (Dan Morse/The Washington Post)

Police identified a 61-year-old man whose body was found in a Rockville home that exploded last week and said that he had committed suicide.

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Authorities said Steven M. Beck shot himself inside his Ashley Drive home. Fire officials were called to the house around 12:51 a.m. Friday after an explosion. The next day, investigators found Beck’s body in the basement of the shattered house.

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Montgomery County police said that an autopsy was performed and that the medical examiner ruled Beck’s death to be a suicide, with the cause of death a gunshot wound.

(WUSA)

A dog was also found near Beck’s body, authorities said. The dog had also died of a gunshot wound, according a department news release.