Couple dead from gunshots, 1 wounded in Vallejo murder-suicide

A man and his estranged wife were found shot to death and the woman’s father was shot in an apparent murder-suicide at a Vallejo home, police said Friday.

Officers made the grisly discovery Thursday after a woman who had locked herself in a bedroom of the Hiddenbrooke neighborhood house called 911 to report her daughter and son-in-law were engaged in a heated argument in a downstairs area of the home, police said.

When police arrived at the home on 1000 block of Songwood Drive near Hiddenbrooke Parkway about 5:40 p.m. they found the couple dead inside the house and the woman’s father outside with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

“The wife’s father intervened, and he is the one who is currently being treated in the hospital,” said Capt. John Whitney.

The woman who made the 911 call reported hearing several gunshots, but could not see anything because she was locked in an upstairs bedroom, according to police dispatch recordings. The frightened woman told the dispatcher her husband was also downstairs with her daughter and son-in-law when the shooting broke out.

Police were investigation the case as a murder-suicide.

Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee