UPDATE: Two Dead in Lawrence Avenue Home

10 a.m. Thursday—Police have started the search of a Lawrence Avenue home where two men died overnight.

Officers and CSI detectives began combing through the home around 7 a.m., Watsonville Deputy Police Chief Rudy Escalante said. The men's bodies are still in the house, though the coroner arrived around 2 a.m.

The two men, whose identities have not been released by officials, both died of gunshot wounds after a long police standoff.

But a family disagreement may have been at the center of the violence. KION-TV spoke with the sister of the suspected gunman, Donna Orsini. She said the suspected gunman was her brother, Aaron Hull, 36, and the second man was his father, Stephen Hull.

Aaron Hull's address is listed at that residence in the phone book.

Escalante said police will release more information at 11:45 a.m.

1:30 a.m. Thursday—Two men are dead in an apparent murder-suicide inside a Lawrence Avenue home, police reported early Thursday.

The men's identities have not been released.

The deaths end that had a normally quiet neighborhood on lockdown.

"We've gone inside and found two people dead of gunshot wounds," Escalante said, explaining that police would have a better understanding of what happened by morning.

The sheriff's SWAT team made entry just after midnight, swept the home and found the bodies. What transpired remains under investigation.

"Right now the scene is basically frozen. We have a search warrant to make entry and evaluate," Esclante said.

Police need a search warrant because they don't know if the men live at the home or if they had criminal records, he said. Escalante added that he didn't know if police had a history of calls at the house.

The coroner was still en route to the scene at 1:30 a.m.

Neighbors heard the men fighting around 5:40 p.m. and called 911. An officer went to the front door and spoke with a white man, but the man abruptly ended the conversation and ran back into the house. 

The officer chased after the man. There was an altercation between the two, followed by an exchange of gunfire. Neither was hit, Escalante said.

During his time in the home, the cop saw a second man laying in a pool of blood but was unable to help him because the officer was being shot at, Escalante said.

The standoff began after that.

The hostage-like situation meant medics were not able to enter the house and try to help the injured man. It wasn't known early Thursday if the man could have been saved had he received medical attention.

A hostage negotiator tried to establish and maintain contact with the armed man inside the home, but those communication efforts ceased before 7 p.m., police reported.

Later, with assistance from the Sheriff's Office SWAT team, police inserted a mic into the home, but it didn't pick up sounds of anyone inside. Escalante said it's unclear if either man was still alive at that point.

Then, a sheriff's robot used a water cannon to break down a door to get a visual in the house. That's when sheriff's deputies made a cursory check in the home and found the men dead.

Police have not said how the men are connected to the family that lives in the one-story, single-family home. No one else was at the house when the violence began, and police kept the other residents away during the standoff.

Neighbors were allowed to return home early Thursday, police said.

The two gunshot deaths come on the heels of .

Watsonville resident Robin Miranda, 22, died after he used power tools to remove a shotgun from the store display and opened fire inside the store while the business was open. Police stormed the building and tried to convince Miranda to surrender.

When he didn't, two officers fired a total of five shots at Miranda, a former Watsonville High championship wrestler who had had a couple run-ins with the law. Each cop hit Miranda once and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

That shooting investigation continues. Both officers who fired their weapons were put on paid leave but have since returned to work.

Including the officer-involved fatal shooting, there have been four homicides in Watsonville this year. The two others— and —were gang-related. There was just one homicide in the city in 2010.