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Tucson police are investigating what they're calling a murder-suicide on the South Side.

Detectives said Eric Burns, a former Pima County Sheriff's deputy, fatally wounded his wife, Ana Irma Burns, before shooting himself early this morning in the bedroom of their home, in the 4600 block of South Paseo Rio Bravo. The house is near the Santa Cruz River and Irvington Road.

Police were called by the woman's 17-year-old daughter, who had run from the house with her adult sister when their step-father retrieved a handgun around 3 a.m., said Sgt. Decio Hopffer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. The daughters heard at least two gunshots, he said.

The man and woman were dead at the scene, he said.

Detectives said the couple planned to divorce but were living together while they sold their house.

Eric Burns had worked as a Pima County Sheriff's Department deputy for one year before he was fired in February for failure to meet probationary standards, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department.