Detroit police are investigating a fatal double shooting reported early Thursday on the city's west side, officials said.

Officers were called at about 4:40 a.m. to a home in the 20200 block of Griggs Avenue near Eight Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue for a report of a shooting, according to authorities.

Police said they arrived and found two dead people, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 20s. Investigators said the two are grandmother and grandson.

"At this time of the investigation, it appears that this was a murder-suicide," officials said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family for this tragic incident."

Authorities have investigated similar incidents in the region this year.

In July, three men , one in his mid-50s, one in his late 40s, and one in his late 2

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