Death of two people under investigation in west Houston

Police are investigating two deaths as a murder-suicide in west Houston.

Patrol officers arrived to the home on Ridgecrossing Lane near Broadmeadow Lane in west Houston at around 9:10 a.m. Thursday in response to a someone requesting a welfare check of the residents. The officers found the two people unresponsive. Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced both people dead inside the home.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences are working to verify the identities of the male and female as well as their causes of death.

Anyone with information in this case is encouraged to contact the Houston Police Department Homicide Division by phone at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS.