A death investigation is underway in Somerville, N.J., after a SWAT team responding to a report of a gunshot found an armed man lying on a couch surrounded by handguns, and a woman’s body decomposing on the kitchen floor.

The initial call from a neighborhood resident came in at 1:08 p.m. Sunday. Arriving police could not get a response from inside the house, so they called in a SWAT team that eventually had to force their way in.

Inside they found 66-year-old Thomas Shaulis, who they arrested and took to the hospital under police guard. The woman in the kitchen was dead and “ in advanced stages of decomposition ,” while the house itself had “hoarder-like conditions with an infestation of bed bugs,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The woman will be autopsied and identified at the North

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