Officials with the Coroner’s Office are investigating a suspected suicide at a home on the 26700 block of  Iron Canyon Road, near Sand Canyon Road in Canyon Country, officials said Monday.

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials responded to a home around 7:15 p.m., after a resident suspected someone was in their home when the homeowner returned from a vacation.

“An informant came home and thought there was somebody inside of the house,” said Sgt. Plazola of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.

Initial reports indicated shotgun shells and lit candles greeted the homeowner when the homeowner came home from vacation.

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The homeowner then left and called 911, according to initial reports. Deputies established a containment of the area to search for a possible suspect, he said.

After deputies began their investigation, a dead body was later discovered at the scene, officials said.

The homeowner was uninjured. Sheriff’s Homicide officials were not available to release any information about the relationship between the person who reportedly committed suicide and the homeowner.

The identity of the body has not been released pending the notification of next of kin, according to officials.

Homicide detectives were contacted around 11 p.m.

Sheriff’s Station officials could not confirm any details of the crime scene.

Homicide officials did not release any initial information Sunday night, but the scene was still under investigation as of shortly after midnight Monday.