Mesa police have arrested two brothers and charged the eldest with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a roommate.

Jesus Baez-Franco, 36, and Oscar Baez-Franco, 26, were arrested in connection with a shooting Thursday morning, Feb. 16, at an apartment in the 500 block of East Southern Ave. in Mesa.

Police went to the apartment at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday on a report of a man in the bathroom with a gun.

When officers arrived, police said, three people came out of the apartment through their bedroom windows. One person told officers there was a man inside with a gun.

Another person, Jesus Baez-Franco, told officers that while he was in his bedroom, he heard “someone inside the apartment rack a gun slide,” authorities said, adding he said that he shot his own firearm through the closed bedroom door toward the main living area of the apartment.

Oscar Baez-Franco told officers he awoke to a gunshot and opened his bedroom door to see his brother.

“After his brother said, ‘They are coming for us!’, Oscar fired his own handgun into the floor of the hallway,” police said in a release.

Officers found a man dead inside the apartment with gunshot wounds. The brothers identified the man with a nickname and confirmed that he stayed in the apartment with them.

After serving a search warrant on the apartment, officers found methamphetamine, officials said.

Jesus Baez-Franco was booked into jail on several charges, including second-degree murder, and he is being held on a $1 million bond.

Oscar Baez-Franco was booked into jail for disorderly conduct/reckless discharge of a weapon and held on a $20,000 bond.