A man suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend and her aunt early Friday in Chula Vista in San Diego County was found dead hours later in Norwalk of an apparent suicide.
David Bell, 38, was found dead inside his white Mazda3 sedan about 8:45 a.m. in the 12200 block of East Imperial Highway, at Avenida Manuel Salinas, in Norwalk, according to Chula Vista police and the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Chula Vista police said Bell called 911 shortly after 3 a.m., identified himself and told emergency dispatchers he had just committed a double murder at a residence in the 2700 block of Apricot Court, which is just west of Lower Otay Lake near the Olympic Training Center.
Officers were sent to the three-story condominium to conduct a welfare check and found the garage door open, Chula Vista police Lt. Eric Thunberg told reporters at the scene. In separate bedrooms on the third floor, they found the bodies of Aura Mancilla, 38, and 58-year-old Patricia Garcia. Both had been shot.
Neighbors told police they heard six to seven shots, Thunberg said. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone else reported the shooting before Bell, who lived in the condo with the victims.
One of the women may have been in a relationship with Bell, and the victims -- whose names were not immediately released -- were believed to be related, Thunberg said. Nobody else was found inside the home, where Bell apparently stayed from time to time, and there were no signs of a break-in or forced entry, the lieutenant said.
