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Man and woman fatally shot inside Capitol Heights home

Homicide investigators are swarming a Capitol Heights neighborhood early this morning after the grisly discovery of two bodies inside a home early Wednesday morning.
Credit: Rogers, Susan
Prince George's County Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man and a woman inside a home in the 4700 block of Omaha St. in Capitol Heights.

UPDATE: The couple found dead in a Capitol Heights home have been identified as Dan Leake and Wilhemina Leake. He was a retired DC fire department mechanic and she was a federal worker.

Homicide investigators are swarming a Capitol Heights neighborhood early Wednesday morning after the grisly discovery of two bodies inside a home.

According to Corporal Lamar Robinson, spokesman for the Prince George's County Police Department, officers were called to the 4700 block of Omaha St. near Glacier Avenue around 3:06 a.m. for a report of a shooting.

When police arrived they found a man and a woman in their 60's inside the home, both suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.

Right now police have no information to release on possible suspects or a motive in the double fatal shooting.

No further information can be released until homicide investigators can process the scene, which is just a couple blocks away from Bradbury Heights Elementary School.

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