CBC News 

A man and three women were found dead Wednesday in a southeast Ottawa home in a case police say was an obvious homicide.

Officers found the bodies of two women and a man at a house on Grandpark Circle, near Conroy Road between Hunt Club and Walkley roads, shortly before 8 a.m. ET, Ottawa police said.

A fourth body belonging to a woman was found around 1:15 p.m.

Police added they are not ruling out a murder-suicide, and would not say if they are looking for any suspects.

Police first visited the home around 2 a.m. after a call from a woman they described as a family member concerned about one of the house's occupants, police said.

During the first visit, no one answered and police said they saw nothing suspicious, but when they returned to follow up later that morning, they saw something that prompted them to kick down the front door and enter the house.

Three police cruisers were parked in front of the detached brick house on a quiet residential street Wednesday afternoon as investigators and forensics experts entered and left.

Neighbours told CBC reporters that a couple of South Asian descent in their 40s or 50s and a 19-year-old female had lived in the house for about five years.

They also said the family kept to themselves and few knew them, even though area residents described the street as a friendly place where neighbours speak to each other a lot, CBC Radio's Alistair Steele reported from the scene.

Land Registry Office documents show the house where the bodies were found was purchased in October 2002 by 44-year-old Santbir Singh Brar and 46-year-old Amarjeet Brar.

A Santbir Brar is listed in the City of Ottawa directory as a garage supervisor with the fleet services branch. However, a city spokesman would not confirm whether he was the same man who owned the house, citing the police investigation.