HOLYOKE - An elderly man shot an elderly woman in the hallway of a Dwight Street apartment building Wednesday morning, and then turned the gun on himself, according to a statement by Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.

Gulluni said Holyoke police were alerted by 911 calls at about 10:45 a.m. for a reported disturbance inside 598 Dwight St. The first officers to arrive at the 5-story apartment building found an elderly woman lying in a common hallway on the third floor, he said.

She had been shot multiple times, he said. The woman was rushed to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where she was pronounced dead at 11:22 a.m.

Witnesses told police that an elderly man had fled the scene and ran up the stairs to the fifth floor. Police began a search of a fifth-floor apartment and found a 78-year-old man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Gulluni said.

The names of the two deceased was not released pending notification of family. It was also not disclosed what the relationship was between them.

The investigation is being handled by the Holyoke Police Detective Bureau, along with troopers from the state police Detective Unit assigned to Gulluni's office.

The address of the shooting is Veterans Park Apartments, a complex that offers affordable housing for seniors. The building is about a block from City Hall, across the street from Veterans Park.