Authorities have released the names of the two people found dead Monday in an apparent murder-suicide in Beverly.

They are John Patrick Nesbitt, 56, and Becky Lynn Center, 58, Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker’s office said Thursday.

Around 9:40 p.m. on Monday, police were called to a home on Colonial Road, where they discovered Nesbitt and Center deceased, authorities have said.

Both had been shot in what Tucker’s office described as “an apparent murder-suicide.”

No additional information was released Thursday.

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