San Diego Police are investigating the deaths of ex-boyfriends Eric Schulthise, 40 and Robert “Bob” Agnew, 41, as a murder-suicide, according to San Diego police officer David Stafford.

On Friday, Feb. 5, on the 3900 block of Wilson Ave. in City Heights, San Diego police found the bodies of Agnew and Schulthise at Schulthise’s condominium.

Police believe that Agnew committed suicide after he shot and killed Schulthise.

The San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office said Schulthise died from multiple gunshot wounds and Agnew died from a “penetrating intraoral gunshot wound of [the] head and neck.”

On Thursday, Feb. 4, at 5:30 a.m., police responded to two 911 calls from tenants inside the condominium complex who reported hearing gunshots outside, according to police records.

Within five minutes of the call, officers arrived at the complex. After speaking to two people in the area, who confirmed hearing gunshots but not knowing where they came from, officers left 12 minutes after they arrived.

A co-worker of Schulthise called police to do a welfare check on Friday afternoon, after Schulthise didn’t show to work for two days. Police then made another visit to the complex where an officer found both Agnew and Schulthise dead after breaking through Schulthise’s front door.

“The blinds were drawn in the condo’s main window, but the officer was able to look through a smaller window and see the two bodies lying in the living room,” the Union-Tribune reported.

Schulthise worked as a senior aquarist at SeaWorld and was a dancer at Bacchus House and Rich’s. Agnew was a former Naval Academy instructor and previously worked in marine biology.

SeaWorld spokesperson David Koontz said, “We’re just very saddened by this tragedy. He was very highly regarded by his colleagues, and he will be greatly missed here.”

Neighbor Adam Strom said that Schulthise told him that a former partner had been harassing and intimidating him, according to reports.

Last September, Agnew became a member of the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus and was well liked by its members, said Gary Holt, the chorus’s artistic director.

“He rehearsed with us every week and fully participated in all of our chorus activity,” Holt said, noting that Agnew performed in the group’s holiday show at the Balboa Theater this past December.

Holt said that Agnew had spoken to chorus members about going through an “an extremely difficult breakup.”

“He did in fact talk to people in the chorus about it. And the chorus always does what the chorus does. They try to be supportive,” Holt said.

Chris St. Pierre was friends with Agnew. The two met one year ago through a mutual friend at last year’s San Diego LGBT Pride festival.

St. Pierre said he was stunned when he heard about the murder-suicide.

“Everything that took place last week, that wasn’t the Bob I knew,” St. Pierre said. “The Bob I knew was very caring and very sweet.”

St. Pierre said that Agnew spoke to him about having “some issues” with Schulthise, but that it was never suggested or implied that Agnew would take Schulthise’s and his own life over it.

“They were just having regular disputes,” St. Pierre said.

“It was like, ‘OK I don’t want to be with you, but I’m going to text you. If you don’t respond to what I text you, then I’ll respond with, I guess you just don’t care about me anymore,’ St. Pierre said. “That kind of issue.”

St. Pierre advised Agnew to move on.

“I flat out told him, ‘You know we’re not in high school anymore. Just let it go. It’s not worth all the drama,” St. Pierre said.

Nate Owen was friends with both men for about two years.

“We weren’t very close, but we were good friends. I’d get text messages from them, more so Eric, because I had his contact info from him for several years,” Owen said. “We’d text message back and forth and see each other at the bars and hang out at Bacchus House or Rich’s or invite each other for lunch.”

So it was a shock to Owen when he heard what happened to Agnew and Schulthise.

“I was completely floored by it,” Owen said.

Owen said Agnew and Schulthise started seeing each other last August.

“Initially it seemed like the two were getting along pretty well, but towards the end Eric wasn’t as interested in Bob, as Bob was with Eric,” Owen said.

Then in November, Owen said, Schulthise ended the relationship.

“Eric made it blatantly clear that he did not want to get serious with Bob anymore.”

After that, Owen said he would see Schulthise out and about with different guys or friends.

In early January on a Saturday at a local Starbucks, Schulthise ran into Owen and Schulthise told Owen that he was being stalked.

“Eric said, ‘He keeps coming up to me. He won’t leave me alone. I forced the guy into my patio so my neighbors could hear in case I needed to press charges against him and needed witnesses. I wish he would stop calling me, stop testing me, stop following me around,’ Owen said, adding that Schulthise did not mention, if he knew, the stalker’s name.

“Eric being a dancer, it could have been anybody,” Owen said, adding that he saw Schulthise a few weeks later and he seemed as though he was back to his regular self.

Three weeks ago, after a night of conversation and dancing at Rich’s with both Agnew and Schulthise (working that night as a dancer), Owen and Agnew had breakfast the morning after at Brians’ American Eatery. Everything seemed fine the night before, according to Owen but while the two were eating, Agnew started continually texting and reading received text messages on his phone.

“He said, ‘Oh man, I just really love the man, and he’s calling everything off, but I just really love him.’ I said, ‘They’re other guys out there for you. This is just a relationship. You can have relationships with other guys.’ He said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever,’ Owen said.

That was the last time Owen had contact with Agnew or Schulthise.

“Although Bob was the one that did the harm that I just pray that the people on Eric’s side can forgive him,” St. Pierre said. “The Bob that I knew wouldn’t have done that but unfortunately he did.”

“It’s a complete tragedy on both sides,” Owens said. “It could have and should have been avoided.”