TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. -- Police are investigating what officers are describing as a murder-suicide that happened Monday afternoon in Temple Terrace.
At 4:11 p.m., authorities responded to the home on Skylake Place for a well-being check requested by the victim's mom.
When officers arrived, they found two people dead inside.
Investigators say they believe a man killed his 3-year-old daughter and then himself.
Police identified the daughter as Ela Deniz Friedman Aytes and the deceased suspect as 48-year-old Ayhan Aytes.
“Our family is devastated at the loss of our beloved Ela," her family wrote in a statement. "At this point we need time to grieve together and we ask for privacy."
Official autopsy results are still pending, and specific details about how the pair died were not immediately released.
Anyone with information that could help detectives should call the Temple Terrace Police Department at 813-989-7110.
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