Troutdale

Multnomah County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a home in the 1700 block of Northeast Seidle Road in Troutdale on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, where they found the bodies of a man and a woman, both in their 60s.

(Molly Harbarger/The Oregonian/OregonLive)

UPDATE: Man fatally shoots wife, kills himself in Troutdale murder-suicide: deputies

A man and woman in their 60s were found dead Saturday at a Troutdale home after an apparent murder-suicide, investigators said.

Just past the crowded swimming holes on the Sandy River, farm fields and gated estates stretch quietly uphill. "This is a quiet rural area, it's unexpected to find this in the country," said Multnomah County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Steve Alexander, standing in the the curved gravel driveway that leads to the home in the 1700 block of Northeast Seidl Road. Trees line the road, obscuring the house from view from the street.

When family friends arrived at 3:30 p.m. to lock the house and shut the windows, the neighborhood was silent, giving no hint of the violence that preceded it.

A landscaping crew had arrived around 9 a.m. for scheduled maintenance to find a car in the driveway with a woman inside. She was dead, with gunshot wounds. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office did not specify where she'd been shot.

Multnomah County sheriff's deputies blocked access to a Troutdale home where two bodies were found Saturday.

No one in the crew had a cell phone, so they started back down the road to find a phone when they flagged down a passing sheriff's deputy, according to Alexander.

The deputy checked the car and called for backup. Police searched the property and then entered the house, where they found a dead man. He also had gunshot wounds.

Alexander said that he couldn't say whether they both lived at the house, whether they were a couple or relatives. He also did not say which is the suspected shooter.

There might have been a few calls about disturbances at the property in the past, Alexander said, but he wasn't sure.

He did say there is no threat to the public.

Both bodies were turned over to the medical examiner's office for autopsies. Identifications are being withheld pending notification of family, Alexander said.

-- Molly Harbarger

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