I cannot believe it.

UPDATE: Preliminary results show that Martin and Jennifer Alston died of gunshot wounds to the head, said Judge Tom Gillam, who ordered the autopsies.

Gillam said further reports are pending.

Sheriff Mitch Woods with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said there is no indication that anyone other than Martin and Jennifer Alston and the 8-year-old daughter that found them was at the house before or after the shooting incidents.

"There is a good deal of evidence to be examined and analyzed in this case," said Woods. He would not elaborate on the type of evidence.

He said officials are delicately interviewing the 8-year-old witness and the investigation is ongoing.

Previous reporting:

MID COUNTY - A couple found shot to death in their Mid County home have been identified as Martin Alston, 34, and Jennifer Lynn Alston, 32.

Maj. Jimmy Singletary of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said that while rumors are swirling that the deaths were a murder-suicide, the investigation was still ongoing and no conclusions have been reached.

"We don't have the toxicology back, we haven't seen autopsy reports, we're still sifting through a lot of evidence at the scene and there are people we have to talk to," he said.

Martin Alston's 8-year-old daughter found the couple dead Friday night at a house on North Fifth Avenue in an unincorporated part of the county known as Central Gardens.

Jennifer Alston, a homemaker, was eight months pregnant.

Martin Alston was a communications technician with AT&T and served in the U.S. Air Force, according to his obituary.

A gathering of family and friends is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. today at Broussard's Mortuary at 505 12th Street in Nederland. Funeral services for both Martin and Jennifer Alston are scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the chapel at Broussard's Mortuary in Nederland. Burial is planned for Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches.

Source: Beaumont Enterprise