Detectives investigate after firefighters find bodies in home

The two bodies found in a northwest valley town home Monday afternoon appear to be participants in a double-suicide, not a victims of a homicide, Las Vegas police said.

Homicide Lt. Lew Roberts said his detectives responded to the scene after firefighters discovered a man and a woman inside a townhouse on Marathon Drive, near Vegas Drive and Rainbow Boulevard.

Investigators suspect the two may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Several small Hibachi-style grills had been set up in the house and had been burning, Roberts said.

The Clark County coroner's office will identify the two people and determine how they died.

Neighbors called the Las Vegas Fire Department at 3:24 p.m. about a natural gas leak at the unit, department spokesman Tim Szymanski said.

When firefighters arrived, they found no odor from a gas leak, and nobody responded to the door. The two also had not shown up for work on Monday.

Firefighters broke through a second-floor window and found the bodies inside.