SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Police are investigating a shooting that left a man and a woman dead in Southwest Miami-Dade, Sunday afternoon, and officials said, it appears to have been a murder-suicide.

Police responded to an apartment complex near Southwest 216th Street and 107th Avenue, after reports of gunfire. Once on the scene, they found a man and a woman shot to death.

The brother-in-law of one of the victims said he’s in shock. “Somebody FaceTimed my granddaughter as we were preparing Easter dinner and told her that Dearrell had a shootout with his girlfriend, and we’re here just to find out,” said John Wellons.

Relatives said both the man and the woman owned guns.

The shooting remains under investigation.

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