UPDATE (Aug. 14, 5:53 p.m.): Crime scene tape surrounded the Smith home on Sable Court in the Belforest community early Thursday morning.

Inside, Kenny Smith, 44, his wife Larrica, 41, and their two children, Khristian, 15, and Kinsley, 11 years old, were all dead.

Investigators believe Smith shot and killed his family and then turned the gun on himself.

Neighbors in the tight-knit community struggled to comprehend what had happened.

"I don't understand, I don't understand how this could happen," said Shannon Brannon.

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"There seems like there might have been some kind of domestic issue that might have escalated to this," said Baldwin County Sheriff Anthony Lowery with the investigation in the early stages.

Deputies were called to the home well before sunrise for a

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