Murder-suicide in Odessa

Two people were found dead inside Spanish Oaks East Apartments Tuesday afternoon in what police say appeared to be a murder-suicide.

Police and apartment officials went into 4630 Oakwood Drive No. 206 at 2:33 p.m. Tuesday and found the bodies of Jarrett Wesley Weaver, 23, and Kelsei Miller Weaver, 22, lying in the downstairs living room of their apartment, according to a release from Cpl. Sherrie Carruth of the Odessa Police Department. Each of them had at least one gunshot wound.

Several people were huddled outside of apartment 206 at about 4 p.m., as one woman had to be carried away by two men when she fell over crying. Another woman was screaming in the highly emotional scene while police officers and detectives went in and out of the apartment. A bit further away, spectators stood on balconies from Peppertree Apartments and from across the street to watch the commotion as it unfolded.

Odessa Police Cpl. Carruth said in the release that Jarrett and Kelsei Weaver's bodies will be taken to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office in Fort Worth for autopsies.

Police detectives did not yet determine when the shootings took place, nor did they determine whether it was Jarrett Weaver or Kelsei Weaver who fired the shots.

Neighbors around the complex and in nearby Peppertree Apartments said they heard what sounded like gunshots, but they gave different nights for when they supposedly heard them.

Foxie Barron, 12, who lives across from the apartment where the two deaths took place, said she heard screaming and then gunfire at 11 p.m. Sunday. Another neighbor, who declined to give her name, said during that time that she heard "just a lot of banging."

"I heard something but I wasn't too concerned," the neighbor said.

Carruth said the police, Odessa Fire Department and apartment managers forced their way into the apartment after a "check welfare" call was made to OPD. Carruth said she did not know what type of gun was used in the shooting.