LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Police Department will provide an update at 9:30 a.m. on an apparent murder-suicide that happened in the Near South neighborhood last week.

You can watch the news conference when it begins in the video player above.

On Friday, Lincoln Police officers responded to a check welfare at a home near south 14th and Sumner streets at 10:45 a.m. LPD said officers determined there was an urgent need to go inside the home to make sure both occupants were safe.

According to police, when they entered, they found a 51-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman dead on the floor of a bedroom with multiple gunshot wounds.

Their identities are being withheld until their families are notified.

LPD said they are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide based on the injur

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