Chris Facchini, Anchor/Reporter Date last updated: 5/26/2010 6:09:42 PM
PRENTISS TWP., Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- State police released the names of the couple found dead in their Averill Road home Tuesday morning. They are Dean and Debbie Meitzler, both 51.
The state medical examiner says the autopsies have confirmed that both died of gunshot wounds.
Police say that Dean Meitzler shot and killed his wife with a rifle and then turned the gun on himself. It happened in the bedroom of their home.
The couple's son, 29 year old Jason Meitzler, reported the shooting to police. He was in another room of the house at the time of the shootings.
State police and Penobscot County Sheriffs deputies responded to the home at 10:30 Tuesday morning.
They found no suicide note and are continuing to investigate what sparked the violence.
Police say this is the seventh homicide of the year in Maine and the fifth involving domestic violence.
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