Two adults were shot dead and a third was hospitalized in what deputies called a homicide-suicide Tuesday night in eastern El Paso County.

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies found two adults dead and another injured in the 5700 block of North Curtis Road north of Garrett Road, around 6:13 p.m. in a shooting that deputies are investigating as an incident of domestic violence, authorities said.

A watering hose sat in a pool of blood near the entrance of a brown one-story house Wednesday morning. Shattered glass covered the porch below the front door and blood stained the steps and concrete pathway. A screen window near the front of the house was bent and protruding from the window frame.

A swing set and several children’s bikes were strewn around the property, along with a dilapidated John Deere tractor, half-a-dozen cars and two rundown trailers.

A neighbor, who asked not to be named, said a couple and their two elementary-aged daughters lived in the house, though she did not know them well.

The neighborhood was put under a shelter-in-place order Tuesday evening as a precaution. The order was lifted within 30 minutes, Gazette news partner KKTV reported.

The two people killed have yet to be identified by the coroner’s office and deputies did not specify the condition of the person sent to the hospital.

Deputies urge those who have knowledge of the incident, or have any information that may be important to this case, to contact the Investigations Tip Line at 719-520-6666.

Early versions of this story had incorrect information on the location of the incident. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

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