By Yan Zhuang, Goya Dmytryshchak and Tate Papworth
A man and a woman found dead on a quiet street in Melbourne's east had recently separated, a shocked neighbour has said.
The 36-year-old Blackburn woman was found deceased in a white Audi SUV in Nunawading just after 6pm on Saturday. The 40-year-old Nunawading man died at the scene shortly after emergency services arrived.
An eight-year-old boy was found uninjured in the vehicle.
A woman was found dead in a car, and a man died shortly afterwards at a Nunawading property on Saturday night.Credit: Goya Dmytryshchak
Police taped off a block of units on Mount Pleasant Road and forensic officers and SES volunteers combed the area late into Saturday night as residents and passersby gathered on the street.
A neighbour who lived in the units said the man and woman were husband and wife who had recently separated.
"They [lived] here about 10 years ago. They bought a house in Blackburn and had this place rented out. Then recently they had separated and he had moved back in last Sunday," he said.
"It's just a big shock."
Another neighbour said she saw three ambulances and multiple police cars arrive on Saturday evening.
Channel Seven reported the car had arrived at the property only a short time before emergency services were called.
"It's terrible. I’ve lived here for 25 years ... we are very much a quiet little community particularly at our end of the street,” the neighbour said.
A police spokeswoman said it was believed the man and woman knew each other.
"The female was deceased when emergency services arrived," she said. "The male died at the scene a short time later.
"A child that was also believed to have been in the vehicle was not physically injured."
A resident of the street said he was in shock.
"The street itself is normally very quiet,” he said. “Nothing normally happens in this street and it’s a bit of a shock, as such.
“Normally you see things on TV thinking something’s never going to happen in your neighbourhood.”
Another man said he walked his dog along the street every night.
“It’s just a quiet residential street with lots of units,” he said. “We live a suburb away so we were just doing a night walk, walking the dog.”
A police spokeswoman said the exact cause of death was yet to be determined and police were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident.
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.