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Police: Tacoma man who died by suicide was a suspect in roommates' deaths

A man came home and found his two roommates dead with gunshot wounds to the head. Police say another roommate found dead from an apparent suicide, was the suspect.

TACOMA, Wash. — Police are now investigating what they're calling a homicide after two women were found dead inside a Tacoma home on July 5.

Officers were called to a home on Pierce Street around 4 a.m.

A man told dispatchers he had arrived home and found his two roommates, Jonna Hart and Megan Re, unresponsive.

Police said both women were shot in the head.  The women were pronounced dead on scene. 

Another male roommate, Erik Larson, was not present at the scene and his whereabouts was unknown at the time. 

Just before 1 p.m. on July 5, the King County Sheriff’s Department alerted the Tacoma Police Department that a man was found dead in the water off Vashon Island. The man was later identified as Erik Larson.

Police said they also found a black Jeep registered to Hart parked near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Larson's death was ruled a suicide.

Tacoma police said Larson is being investigated as a suspect in the deaths of his two roommates.

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