Update: Troopers Investigate Suspected Murder, Suicide Near Selbyville

Selbyville – Delaware State Police Homicide detectives are conducting a death investigation after a male and female were found deceased in the parking lot in the rear of the Bayview Estates community clubhouse.

At approximately 5:50 a.m. today troopers responded to the clubhouse on Sea Gull Road after receiving a report of two people lying on the ground in the rear parking lot. Troopers arrived to find an unresponsive male and female lying near two vehicles. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

The male, 63, and female, 53, were married and resided in the Maryland side of the Bayview Estates community, in Bishopville, Maryland.

A preliminary investigation indicates the pair drove separately to the clubhouse sometime during the late evening of May 18. The male shot the female twice and then shot himself. A handgun was recovered at the scene.

Both bodies have been turned over to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an official determination of the cause and manner of death. The decedents' names will be released once next of kin have been notified.