Photos: Domestic Dispute May Have Sparked East Hollywood Shootings, Fire

Police are now saying that a domestic dispute may have been behind the rampage that killed two, including the suspected shooter, and critically injured three others in the Melrose Hill area Thursday afternoon.

Read our earlier coverage of the incident here.

According to Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Lt. Andy Neiman, the shooter was known to be involved with one of the residents of the house.

Police won't yet release his name. But the shooter has been positively identified as one of two killed when flames engulfed the home at 517 N. Harvard Blvd. where at least five people lived.

The other body has not yet been identified.

Three other residents--two females and one male--were taken to the hospital and treated for critical shooting injuries.

According to several media outlets, the fire appeared to begin after the shootings, and it took at least 150 firefighters several hours to put it out.

Only then could a SWAT team go in and positively identify that two had been killed in the blaze.

According to the City News Service, Gary Davidson also lived in the house, though he was not there when the shoots and fire occurred.

The man thought to be the shooter also lived in the area. 

A neighbor told the Los Angeles Times, that she had seen a man with a pony tail holding a duffel bag enter the house just before the shooting broke out.

The case is now being investigated as a homicide and detectives will be on location through the evening gathering evidence and interviewing neighbors.

Firefighters are also guarding the location overnight.

We sent Silver Lake photographer Jesse Narducci to shoot images of the area just before firefighters finally knocked down the blaze.

They are included in the attached gallery.