A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.According to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, they were called to a home on Weeks Ranch Road, in the hills east of Santa Rosa, after an individual failed to show up for work, raising concern. A deputy arrived at the home at 12:19 pm Wednesday to perform a welfare check."The deputy arrived to find the front door closed but unlocked, with lights on in the home," the department says, in a release. "After announcing his presence with no response, the deputy entered the home at approximately 1:30 pm and found two deceased people in what initially appeared to be a murder-suicide."Detectives and crime scene investigators were subsequently called in from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crime division. Despite the initial appearance of a murder-suicide, the department says, "the investigation is ongoing as detectives continue working through the information they’ve received."The names of the individuals have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.