Five adults were found dead inside a north Phoenix home after a shooting Thursday in a suspected family dispute, police said.
The names and ages of the three men and two women weren't immediately released. But police said the three men apparently were brothers and the dead women were the men's mother and a spouse of one of the brothers.
A woman who was able to leave the home told officers that it was a family dispute gone wrong, police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump said.
"Our dispatcher could hear shots fired in the background while that call was coming in," Crump said. "A caller had been able to escape the home at that point, get out and start to give us information."
The caller reportedly exited the home with two children. Crump could not immediately confirm the caller's relationship to the people inside the home, but police believe it may have been a family dispute that led to the shooting.
It wasn't immediately clear how many people fired shots, but police say they weren't looking for any outstanding suspects.
Officers discovered the bodies after an hours-long barricade situation in a residential neighborhood. Witnesses at the scene said they heard the sound of muted gunshots about an hour after a standoff began.
TV footage showed several SWAT team officers breaking the glass of a back patio door to enter the home.
The SWAT team used a robot to search the house before sending in a dog and officers, Crump said.
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