The Licking County Sheriff's Office says the two people who died in Thursday night's double shooting in the 4300 block of Price Road in Newark east of Burch Drive, were a Deputy Sheriff and his wife.

The call came into dispatchers around 8:15 p.m. Thursday night. They arrived at a home on Price Road and found 34-year-old David Lewandowski and his wife 24-year-old Elizabeth Lewandowski dead.

David Lewandowski was assigned to the patrol division, Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp said in a news release. Elizabeth Lewandowski was a nurse at Licking Memorial Hospital.

A call to 911 resulted in paramedics and medical helicopters being dispatched, but medical personnel were soon called off. Both people were pronounced dead at the scene. A section of Price Road was closed to traffic by sheriff's deputies.

Investigators with the sheriff's office and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation were poring over the scene late Thursday night. Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp said the preliminary investigation indicates this appears to be a murder/suicide.

"I would ask that as a community we keep the victims in our thoughts and prayers as well as the extended work families of the Licking County Sheriff's Office and Licking Memorial Hospital," Thorp said in a statement.

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