SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Montgomery County police are investigating the deaths of an elderly woman and her son as a murder-suicide.

Officers say they found 61-year-old Garvey Dyer and his 88-year-old mother, Rose, dead from apparent gunshot wounds in a Silver Spring apartment building.

A Thursday police statement says relatives had alerted them after learning that Garvey Dyer had gone to his mother's apartment. He was a resident of Bethesda.

Their bodies were discovered late Wednesday.

Montgomery County police are asking anyone with information about the apparent murder-suicide to call them.

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