photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

A police car blocks off the entrance to Oak Hill Cemetery Wednesday morning, Nov. 16, 2022, as officials investigate two shooting deaths that occurred there.

Updated at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday

Police and a coroner’s team on Wednesday morning investigated the deaths of two people in Lawrence’s Oak Hill Cemetery, which they later indicated may have been a case of murder-suicide.

Late Wednesday afternoon, police identified the deceased as Ana Marie Jessee, 22, of Lawrence, and Robert Sowders, 36, of Overland Park.

A Lawrence Police Department official at the scene Wednesday morning confirmed that two bodies were found in the cemetery, just east of Oak Hill Avenue and Elmwood Street in eastern Lawrence.

photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

The forensic investigation vehicle is parked just inside the fence of Oak Hill Cemetery, behind Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, for a death scene investigation on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

LPD spokeswoman Laura McCabe told the Journal-World that the man and woman died of gunshot wounds. Police arrived on the scene at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, responding to a report of a disturbance with weapons. Once on scene, officers found two bodies with gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

McCabe said at the time that the incident created no risk to the public. Police spent the day notifying family members of the deceased before publicly identifying them.

photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

This area looking north just inside the Oak Hill Cemetery entrance, pictured Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, is where officials were investigating the deaths of two people who died from gunshot wounds.