Two women and a man were found shot and killed inside an apartment in the Fair Lakes area of Fairfax County, Virginia, on Tuesday, police say.
About 10:30 a.m., the mother of a women who lives at the apartment at the Camden Fair Lakes Apartments complex asked police to do a welfare check after she couldn't reach her daughter and learned her daughter didn't show up for work, Fairfax County police said.
When officers arrived and knocked on the apartment door, a roommate answered and let them inside, police said. They found the two women and a man shot to death in a bedroom.
On Wednesday, police said that detectives found evidence that the three found dead had made a suicide pact. Police believe the man shot the two women before shooting himself.
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All three of them lived in the apartment, police said.
The roommate who let officers in the unit is not considered a person of interest and she is cooperating with the investigation, police said.
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