UPDATE: Suspect Arrested/Victim Named
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UPDATE, 9:25 p.m.: A press release from EPD:
On March 26, 2014 at 1757 hours, Eureka Police officers were dispatched to 2109 Harris Street in Eureka on a citizen’s report of an injured person in the house at that location. Officers entered the house to render first aid and found a man deceased with obvious signs of trauma. The officers checked the rest of the house for other persons who may need help and found a second person deceased in the home as well.
Detectives and evidence technicians have been called to investigate the deaths and process the scene. Based on information collected at the scene, the crime is being processed as a homicide.
The deceased have been identified but their names are being withheld until family members have been notified.
Anyone with information about this investigation should call the Eureka Police at (707) 441-4044.
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UPDATE, 8:30 p.m.: Eureka Police Chief Andy Mills confirms that two people were found dead at the scene — 2019 Harris St. — but said he could not yet release much more information, such as their apparent cause of death or whether the police are treating the case as a murder. Right now, he said, they are conducting a “death investigation.”
Mills said that when they were originally called to the scene, the report was that one person was seriously injured outside the home. When the police got there, they found that person dead. Police went in to clear the home and found the second body.
Mills said that they are currently waiting for a search warrant to conduct a thorough search of the residence.
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There is a large police/fire presence on Harris Street near the corner of V right now, after two people were found dead inside a home.
The original call went out over police radio shortly after 6 p.m.; it mentions that a friend found an occupant of the home in a “large amount of blood.” The Times-Standard reports that police found a second body shortly after they arrived.
Here’s audio of the original call:
Here’s the follow-up, in which the fire department is summonded to the scene:
More as we get it.
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