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Five found dead in related shootings

Monday, December 26, 2005; Posted: 4:00 a.m. EST (09:00 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Five people were shot dead Sunday in what police believe was a murder-suicide at two houses in an affluent section of suburban Washington.

The story began to unfold around 10:25 a.m., when officers from the Fairfax County Police Department responded to a telephone call about shots being fired from a house in Great Falls, said Fairfax County Police Officer Richard Henry.

A 20-year-old uninjured resident came out of the house when police arrived, and a police SWAT team entered, searched the house and found the bodies of three men and one woman, Henry said.

"We believe that the suspect is one of those people," he said. The role of the uninjured man was not immediately clear.

Also found were two Labrador dogs -- one of whom had been shot more than once, he said. "It doesn't look like it's going to die."

Information found in the house led police to a house in Tysons Corner, about 12 miles west of downtown Washington, where they found a fifth body -- a woman, Henry said.

"We believe that the suspect in each of these cases is the same person," he said. Henry would not disclose the relationships among the people, "other than they were not strangers and the suspect did know these people."

Some of the victims were related to one another, he added.