3 bodies found shot to death

SHELTON, Wash. – A man and two women were found shot to death in a house near here Wednesday in what may have been a case of domestic violence, a Mason County sheriff’s officer said.

The dead were believed to be a young man and his wife, as well as the wife’s mother, sheriff’s Inspector Dean Byrd said. They were not immediately identified late Wednesday.

The man’s father called emergency dispatchers after he went to the home Wednesday afternoon to check on his son because he had not seen him since Tuesday afternoon, Byrd told KOMO-TV. The son was temporarily living with his father in the Olympia area.

Peering in a window at the home of the wife’s mother, he saw his son’s bloodied body and went across the street to a neighbor’s house to call for help.

Sheriff’s officers entered the house with a search warrant and found the bodies, as well as a handgun near the man’s body.