Authorities still searching for clues in double homicide near Garner

Investigators say the bodies of Jose Samual Flores Mendoza and his wife, Maria Saravia Mendoza, both 34, were found around 12:30 a.m. Saturday at 708 Colonial Drive, near Garner, after a neighbor called 911 because she heard loud noises.

Authorities say the couple's 3-year-old son was in the home but was not harmed. The Mendozas also have a 12-year-old child who was not home when they were killed.

A neighbor in the same duplex where the Mendozas lived reported that bullet holes pierced the walls of his home, including one just above where an 8-year-old boy had been sleeping.

A spokeswoman for the sheriff's office said Monday that investigators don't think either victim was responsible for the killings, but they have not released any information about a possible suspect.

The couple and their children moved to the home about a year ago, said neighbors, who described them as a quiet, religious, hardworking couple who never caused problems.

The Mendozas worked in the kitchen of Golden Corral in south Raleigh.

"Both were long-term, valued employees and will be dearly missed," Scott Schaberg, a spokesman for the restaurant chain, said in a statement Monday. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and especially to their two children."