Colorado Springs police have identified Ted and Shirley Cull as the elderly couple who were found shot to death in their central Colorado Springs home late Tuesday night.

The death of Ted Eugene Cull, 82, has been declared a suicide.

The manner of 82-year-old Shirley Cull’s death remains under investigation, according to a news release sent Wednesday by the police department.

The couple were found just before 10 p.m. in their home at 3207 Paseo Drive , across the street from Palmer Park, after police responded to a report of a suicide in progress.

Officers received the call at 9:36 p.m., but when they reached the home at 9:40 p.m., they found both Culls dead. 

Colorado Springs police are investigating two bodies found in a home in east Colorado Springs Tuesday night. (Maria St. Louis-Sanchez, The Gazette)