DELTONA, Fla. -- Six adults were found slain in a Deltona home Friday after one of the victims failed to show up for work, according to Local 6 News.

Slideshow

IMAGES 4 Suspects Mug Shots More Images VIDEO Deltona Ringleader Nearly Beat Man To Death In 1996 6 Bodies Found In Central Florida Home Crime Scene Described Neighbors React MORE Sheriff Says Men Should Get Death Penalty Second Home Searched Burger King Closes MAP See Image Of Area

The bodies of four men and two women were discovered about 6:30 a.m. in a single-family home after a co-worker of one of the victims asked a friend to check on them, Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson said.

Nobody was found alive inside the home. A dog was found dead in the home as well, Local 6 News reported.

Davidson said it wasn't known if the victims were a family.

The victim's bodies were found scattered inside the home, according to a Local 6 News report.

The deaths do not appear to be a murder-suicide, officials said.

"It appears that we have a murderer on the loose, but it's early in the investigation," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.

Johnson said the victims did not appear to have been family members and had not been living at the house long. He did not offer a possible motive or specify how the victims were killed. The victims' ages appeared to range from 18 to the mid-30s, authorities said.

Davidson said the bodies were found in different rooms in the house. Deputies sealed off the area and were conducting a search.

Authorities refused to confirm reports that some of the victims worked at a local Burger King restaurant. The restaurant posed a sign that read "Sorry temporarily closed. Sorry for the inconvenience." Don Ramdeen, the restaurant's operations director said the business was bringing in professional counselors for its workers.

A neighbor of the victims, India Harris, said she was visited by two investigators at 7 a.m., waking up her brother and cousin. Harris, 17, estimated four people lived in the house, but only knew the neighbors to say hello. Her brother told her the people living there were between the ages of 18 and 30.

County tax records show that the home is owned by a Brooklyn, N.Y., man.

Harris said the investigators asked her whether she knew any of the neighbors and whether she saw any strange cars passing through the neighborhood.

"They kept asking us, 'Did we know any of them?"' Harris said in a telephone interview. Harris said she did not know the names of the people who lived there.

Deltona is about 25 miles north of Orlando.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.