PHOENIX — A shooting Tuesday night in a west Phoenix home left four adults dead and one man wounded, police said.

Phoenix Police officers responded to a shooting call near 62nd Avenue and Elm Street Tuesday night before 7 p.m.

A man and a woman were found dead at the home, and two men found critically wounded at the home died at hospitals. A wounded 19-year-old man was hospitalized in stable condition and expected to survive, police said.

It wasn’t immediately known what prompted the shooting but the five people involved all knew each other and there was no threat to the community, said Sgt. Ann Justus, a Police Department spokeswoman.

Police, including rifle-toting officers in tactical gear and some with dogs, earlier were seen searching neighboring homes.

No identities were released and no additional information was immediately available on circumstances of the incident.

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