Woman, two children found dead in Lakewood Ranch home

A woman and two children were found dead in a Lakewood Ranch home Thursday night, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office reported on Friday.

According to a deparment spokesman, deputies were sent on a welfare-check call to the 8200 block of Pavia Way in the Lake Club community just north of University Parkway. Once there, at the request of the homeowner, the sheriff’s department said, deputies “observed circumstances that prompted them to enter the residence.’’

Inside, they found the bodies of a woman and two children.

No threat to the community exists, the department said, and all parties involved in the case appear to have been accounted for.

An investigation is under way, as detectives process the scene and review evidence. The medical examiner will determine the official causes and manner of death.

A similar call to Sarasota County Sheriff's Office resulted in the discovery of a man and woman in the Waterside neighborhood to the south last week. One victim in that case was dead on deputies' arrival and the other died at a hospital.