Danielle Ferguson

dbferguson@argusleader.com

Police are investigating the death of two males at a northern Sioux Falls building Tuesday morning as a murder-suicide.

The business and apartment building is on North C Avenue near W. Blackhawk Street in the industrial park south of the airport. The call came in at 8:40 a.m, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.

Police were initially called for a well-being check, said Capt. Blaine Larsen. Officers found the apartment's resident and another male dead. The men knew each other.

"The manner of death is consistent with a murder-suicide," Larsen said.

Names are not being released pending family notification.

Related: 2017 Sioux Falls homicides

Police were on scene near the business and were looking in a vehicle and a nearby dumpster. Earlier, two ambulances left with two stretchers.

No further information on the nature of the call was released, but scanner traffic at the time indicated there was a suicidal subject at that location.

As of 1 p.m., all police units had cleared the scene.

Lori Valenti works across the street from the scene. She noticed police in the area just before 9 a.m. She saw more police, detectives and an ambulance arrive. She saw the ambulance leave pretty quickly, she said. A second ambulance came around noon and took a second stretcher.

"There's not a lot of traffic in and out (of that building) ever," she said. "We hardly see anyone come out of there, so we thought this was really weird."

More information will be released at Wednesday's police briefing.

This incident marks the fifth homicide in Sioux Falls in 2017.

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