COWETA, Okla. — Coweta police and Wagoner County Sheriff's Department are on the scene where two bodies were found inside a home.
It's happening near 112th Street and 275th east Avenue in Coweta.
According to police, the children arrived back at the home on the afternoon of Dec. 1 after attending church and discovered the bodies of their parents in a bathroom.
This loss left a number of neighbors stunned, especially Amy Scott.
“I just hurt for these children because they’re going to have to live with this for the rest of their lives," said Scott. "We need to pray for them, and everybody needs to do what they can for this family.”
Scott has lived in the neighborhood for the last six years. From the time they moved in, Scott said her family always got along with them.
Over the last year, Scott said she noticed the family becoming a little more closed off.
Looking back now, she wishes she had checked in on her neighbors.
"I feel kind of guilty, because I’m one of those people who could have probably reached out a little bit more,” said Scott. "I couldn’t do nothing but cry. I couldn’t sleep, just thinking about these poor kids. Now they’re left without parents and the hurt that these people had to feel to do something like that."
A number of residents spoke to us off camera, saying they couldn't believe something like this happened in their quiet section of town.
Scott agrees with the sentiment.
“This neighborhood is awesome, I mean that’s why this was so shocking because we don’t have things like that," she said. "For that to happen and especially to neighbors we knew, that we actually talked to and we got to know… it’s just devastating.”
She hopes this will serve as a wake up call to she and her community, to be better neighbors and lookout for one another.
“I feel like if somebody maybe would have stepped in, and not judged and went and tried befriending these people, maybe listen a little closer, maybe get involved a little more, maybe this could have been prevented.”
Authorities are investigating this as a murder-suicide.
Both adults were identified as tribal members. The investigation was handed over to Lighthorse Police.
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