Huntsville police have charged a man with three counts of capital murder after the grisly discovery of two bodies and a standoff earlier Wednesday in a residential home.

Maurice D’Antonio Chatman, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday morning following the incident in the 12000 block of Mt. Charron Road.

Police identified Ernest Bragg, 74, and Daniel Jones, 49, as the victims found inside a home by police. Madison County Coroner Tyler Berryhill said the two died of gunshot wounds.

According to police, one of the capital murder charges is a “result of a modifier for the aggravated circumstance of a burglary.”

Officers were originally called to a Mt. Charron Drive home at around 12:30 a.m. to investigate shots being fired.

As officers arrived, they saw a person walking away from the home, later identified as Chatman. The person briefly put up his hands, police said, feigned compliance, then ran to his home and barricaded himself.

Once officers entered the home where the call originated, they found the bodies of Bragg and Jones.

Over the next several hours, police used several tactical methods in an attempt to get Chatman to leave the home, while trying to determine if anyone else was inside with him. He was later apprehended in the home’s attic after police entered through the roof.

At a news conference this morning, Deputy Chief Michael Johnson said officers were aware of calls of a “low-level nature” in the past 48 hours from the address where the bodies were found – it had “a bit of a history,” – but nothing “on the order” of what happened later.